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1.
... men.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
2.
... men.
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
We
know that while the
alcoholic keeps away from
drink, as he may do for
months or
years, he
reacts much like other
men.
3.
... men.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
We, in our
turn,
sought the
same
escape with all the
desperation of
drowning men.
4.
... men.
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Neither does there
appear to be any
kind of
treatment which will
make
alcoholics of our
kind like other
men.
5.
... men.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
Then he
fell victim to a
belief which
practically
every
alcoholic has -- that his
long period of
sobriety and
self-
discipline had
qualified him to
drink as
other
men.
6.
... men.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
It is
open, we
believe, to
all
men.
7.
... men.
BB p.104,
To Wives
With few
exceptions, our book thus far has
spoken of
men.
8.
... men.
BB p.105,
To Wives
We have had
retaliatory love affairs with other
men.
9.
... men.
BB p.107,
To Wives
Sometimes we
sensed dimly
that we were
dealing with
sick men.
10.
... men.
BB p.136,
To Employers
He has
hired and
fired hundreds of
men.
11.
... men.
BB p.136,
To Employers
12.
... men.
BB p.148,
To Employers
13.
... men.
BB p.149,
To Employers
14.
... men (and
a few women) with quite ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
When the
phrase "We are people who
normally would not
mix" (
page 17 of this book) was
written in
1939, it
referred to a
Fellowship composed largely of
men (and a few
women) with quite
similar social,
ethnic, and
economic backgrounds.
15.
... men and
reputation.
BB p.148,
To Employers
16.
... men and
their families.
BB p.119,
To Wives
You have been
starving for his
companionship,
yet he
spends long hours helping other
men and their
families.
17.
... men and
their families.
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
This has
become the
basis
of a
rapidly growing fellowship of these
men and
their
families.
18.
... men and
we have done so with ...
BB p.105,
To Wives
Our
friends have
counseled chucking the
men and we have done so with
finality, only to be back in a
little while
hoping, always
hoping.
19.
... men and
women.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
20.
... men and
women.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
The
membership had then
reached about
100 men and
women.
21.
... men and
women are strikingly agreed.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
On one
proposition, however, these
men and
women are
strikingly agreed.
22.
... men and
women, desperately in need, will ...
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
Our
hope is that many
alcoholic men and
women,
desperately in
need, will see these
pages, and
we
believe that it is only by
fully disclosing ourselves
and our
problems that they will be
persuaded to say, "Yes, I am one of them too; I
must have this thing."
23.
... men and
women didn't exert themselves to ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
If
men and
women didn't
exert themselves to be
secure
in their
persons, made no
effort to
harvest food or
construct shelter, there would be no
survival.
24.
Men and
women drink essentially because they ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
25.
... men and
women ever had a more ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
26.
... men and
women, happy in their release, ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
Seeing much of each other,
scarce an
evening passed that
someone's
home did not
shelter a
little gathering of
men and
women,
happy in their
release, and
constantly
thinking how they might
present their
discovery
to some
newcomer.
27.
... men and
women of all religions have ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
We won't have far to
seek; the
great men and
women of all
religions have
left us a
wonderful supply.
28.
... men and
women of the press have ...
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
On almost every
newsfront, the
men and
women of the
press have
attached
themselves to us as
friends.
29.
... men and
women, of whatever description, is ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
30.
... men and
women open with wonder as ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
To
watch the
eyes of
men and
women open with
wonder as they
move from
darkness into
light, to see their
lives quickly fill with new
purpose and
meaning, to see
whole families reassembled, to see the
alcoholic outcast received back into his
community in
full citizenship, and above all to
watch these people
awaken to
the
presence of a
loving
God in their
lives -- these
things are the
substance of what we
receive as we
carry A.A.'s
message to the
next alcoholic.
31.
... men and
women pour so much alcohol ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
When
men and
women pour so much
alcohol into
themselves that they
destroy their
lives, they
commit a most
unnatural act.
32.
... men and
women spared from alcohol's final ...
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
33.
... men and
women speak love with their ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
But how many
men and
women speak love with their
lips, and
believe what they
say, so that they can
hide lust in a
dark corner of their
minds?
34.
... men and
women to recovery, there exists ...
BB xi,
Preface
Because this book has
become the
basic text for our
Society and has
helped such
large numbers of
alcoholic men and
women to
recovery, there
exists strong sentiment against any
radical changes being made
in it.
35.
... men and
women who are banded together ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
36.
... men and
women who are constitutionally incapable ...
BB p.58,
How It Works
Those who do not
recover are people who cannot or
will not
completely give
themselves to this
simple program, usually
men and
women who are
constitutionally incapable of being
honest
with themselves.
37.
... men and
women who go power-mad, who ...
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
We have also seen
men and
women who go
power-
mad, who
devote themselves to
attempting to
rule their
fellows.
38.
... men and
women who have lost the ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
We
alcoholics are
men
and
women who have
lost the
ability to
control our
drinking.
39.
... men and
women who have recovered from ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
40.
... men and
women who share their experience, ...
Grapevine,
Preamble
Alcoholics Anonymous is a
fellowship of
men and
women who
share their
experience,
strength
and
hope with each other that they may
solve their
common problem and
help others to
recover from
alcoholism.
41.
... men and
women who were once just ...
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
We, of
Alcoholics Anonymous,
know thousands of
men and
women who were once just as
hopeless as
Bill.
42.
... men and
women who would be hopelessly ...
BB p.572(574),
Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.
43.
... men and
women, worldly indeed.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
44.
... men are
better husbands and fathers than ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
Today most of our
men are
better husbands and
fathers than ever before.
45.
... men are
gathered together in business there ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
46.
... men are
suddenly cast to one side, ...
BB p.27,
There Is A Solution
47.
... men are
thoroughly bad-intentioned, that no amount ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
48.
... men are
to become happy, respected, and ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
It may
seem incredible
that these
men are to
become
happy,
respected, and
useful once more.
49.
... men as
we did not!
BB p.106,
To Wives
How
heartbreaking was this
discovery; how
cruel to be
told they
understood our
men as we did not!
50.
... men as
we have come to know ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
51.
... men, but
for alcoholics these things are ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
They may be the
dubious luxury of
normal men, but for
alcoholics these
things are
poison.
52.
... men cannot
or will not get over ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
Some
men cannot or will not get over
alcoholism.
53.
... men cared
nothing for the society of ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
If there were no
social instinct, if
men cared nothing for the
society of one another, there would be no
society.
54.
... men come
out of asylums and resume ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
I have seen
men come out of
asylums and
resume a
vital place in the
lives of
their
families and
communities.
55.
... men drink
their heads off.
BB p.138,
To Employers
I
pointed out that I had had
nothing to
drink whatever for
three years, and this in the
face of
difficulties
that would have made
nine out of
ten men drink their
heads off.
56.
... men, even
our enemies, for we look ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
We have
begun to
learn tolerance,
patience and
good will
toward all
men, even our
enemies, for we
look on them as
sick people.
57.
... men everywhere.
BB p.136,
To Employers
58.
... men failed.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
I
reasoned I was not so far
advanced as most of you
fellows, that I had been usually
successful in
licking my
other
personal problems, and that I would therefore be
successful where you
men failed.
59.
... men from
the boys."
12&12 p.63,
Step Six
"This is the
Step that
separates the
men from the
boys."
60.
... men's gathering
places of all sorts, often ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
61.
... men get
well whose families have not ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
We have seen
men get well whose
families have not
returned at all.
62.
... men gradually,
but His impact on me ...
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
God comes to most
men gradually, but His
impact on me was
sudden and
profound.
63.
... men had
appeared in court, persuading the ...
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
64.
... men had
found something brand new in ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
These
men had
found something
brand new in
life.
65.
... men had
hit upon a cure, once ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
But once these
men had
hit upon
a
cure, once it
became apparent that only by their
united effort could this be
accomplished, then all of them would
feel bound to
devote themselves
solely to
the
relief of
cancer.
66.
... men had
spectacular and powerful recoveries.
BB p.113,
To Wives
67.
... men had
the nerve to say that ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
68.
... men have
been so impaired by alcohol ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
Some
men have been so
impaired by
alcohol that
they cannot
stop.
69.
... men have
begotten all sorts of predicaments.
BB p.105,
To Wives
Our
loyalty and the
desire that our
husbands hold up their
heads and be like
other
men have
begotten
all
sorts of
predicaments.
70.
Men have
cried out to me in ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
Men have
cried out to me in
sincere and
despairing appeal: "
Doctor, I cannot go on like this!
71.
... men have
discovered God.
BB p.28,
There Is A Solution
72.
... men have
regained their standing.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
73.
... men have
repeatedly deleted names and pictures ...
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
74.
... men have
sworn great solemn oaths that ...
BB p.105,
To Wives
Our
men have
sworn great solemn oaths that they were through
drinking forever.
75.
... men, hoping
matters will take a turn ...
BB p.147,
To Employers
So, for one
reason or another, they
cover these
men,
hoping matters will take a
turn for the
better.
76.
... men if
they try our suggestions.
BB p.104,
To Wives
There is every
evidence that
women regain their
health as
readily as
men if they
try our
suggestions.
77.
... men in
charge of the alcoholic problem ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
78.
... men in
the fourth classification would be ...
BB p.113,
To Wives
You would
suppose that
men
in the
fourth classification would be quite
hopeless, but that is not so.
79.
... men in
this city have found themselves, ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
When a few
men in this
city
have
found themselves, and have
discovered the
joy of
helping others to
face life again, there will be no
stopping until
everyone
in that
town has had his
opportunity to
recover
-- if he can and will.
80.
... men in
those days was equal to ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
Students of
ancient history tell us that the
intellect of
men in those
days was
equal to the
best of
today.
81.
... men" is
the difference between striving for ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
So the
difference between "the
boys and the
men" is the
difference between
striving for a
self-
determined objective
and for the
perfect objective which is of
God.
82.
... men, it
is by no means a ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
Though it is
infinitely better that he have no
relapse at all, as has been
true with many of our
men, it is
by no
means a
bad thing in
some
cases.
83.
... men jumping
to death from the towers ...
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
84.
... men later
became cofounders of A.A.
BB p.155,
A Vision For You (Note)
85.
... men lost
to this world because I ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
Here were
three exceptional men lost to this
world because I did
not
understand alcoholism as I do now.
86.
... men may
go without disaster, provided he ...
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
He can go anywhere on this
earth where other
free men may go without
disaster,
provided he
remains willing to
maintain a
certain simple attitude.
87.
... men may
well have a remedy for ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
These
men may well have a
remedy for
thousands of
such
situations.
88.
... men's minds
were fettered by superstition, tradition, ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
89.
... men, much
like himself, have recovered.
BB p.113,
To Wives
He
knows that
thousands
of
men, much like himself, have
recovered.
90.
... men, nor
should we try.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
We of
Alcoholics Anonymous could not be all things to all
men, nor should we
try.
91.
... men of
faith have courage.
BB p.68,
How It Works
All
men of
faith have
courage.
92.
... men of
genius conceived their best projects ...
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
93.
... men of
medicine as well as with ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Neither does
A.A. take any
particular medical point of
view, though we
cooperate widely with the
men of
medicine as well as
with the
men of
religion.
94.
... men of
my battery given me a ...
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
I
fancied myself a
leader, for had not the
men of
my
battery given me a
special token of
appreciation?
95.
... men of
religion.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Neither does
A.A. take any
particular medical point of
view, though we
cooperate widely with the
men of
medicine as well as
with the
men of
religion.
96.
... men of
religion' were still killing one ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
How we
loved to
shout the
damaging fact that
millions of the '
good men of
religion' were still
killing one another off in the
name of
God.
97.
... men of
science have been forcing nature ...
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
98.
... men of
the house would appear.
BB p.105,
To Wives
We
seldom had
friends at
our
homes,
never knowing how or when the
men of
the
house would
appear.
99.
... men of
thirty or less, had been ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Several of our
crowd,
men of
thirty or
less, had been
drinking only a few
years,
but they
found themselves as
helpless as those who had been
drinking twenty years.
100.
... men recover,
and is a power in ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
He has
helped other
men recover, and is a
power in
the
church from which he was
long absent.
101.
... men set
to work almost frantically upon ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
102.
... men shall
be governed, and how the ...
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
We
live in the
imminent possibility of a
fresh holocaust to
determine
how
men shall be
governed,
and how the
products of
nature and
toil shall be
divided among them.
103.
... men, staff
member of a world-renowned hospital, ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
One of these
men,
staff member of a
world-
renowned hospital,
recently made this
statement to some of us: "What you say about the
general hopelessness
of the
average alcoholic's
plight is, in
my
opinion,
correct.
104.
... men suffer
horribly, but not more than ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
The
wives and
children of
such
men suffer horribly, but not more than the
men themselves.
105.
... men than
the altruistic movement now growing ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
We
feel, after many
years of
experience, that we have
found nothing which has
contributed more to the
rehabilitation of these
men than the
altruistic movement now
growing up
among them.
106.
... men than
we are using it constantly.
BB p.85,
Into Action
Better men than we are
using it
constantly.
107.
... men that
they have over-indulged.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
Alcohol is so
sexually
stimulating to some
men
that they have over-
indulged.
108.
... men, the
stimulating and electric atmosphere of ...
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
The
expression on the
faces of the
women, that
indefinable something in the
eyes of the
men, the
stimulating and
electric atmosphere of
the place,
conspired to let him
know that here was
haven at
last.
109.
... men themselves.
BB p.114,
To Wives
The
wives and
children of
such
men suffer horribly, but not more than the
men themselves.
110.
... men --
they can devote themselves to any ...
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
In
partnership with others --
women and
men -- they can
devote themselves to any
number of
ideas, people, and
constructive projects.
111.
... men to
make the supreme sacrifice rather ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
There are many
situations which
arise out of the
phenomenon of
craving
which
cause men to make the
supreme sacrifice
rather than
continue to
fight.
112.
Men under
them are frequently their friends.
BB p.147,
To Employers
Men under them are
frequently their
friends.
113.
... men we
married?
BB p.107,
To Wives
Could we have been so
mistaken in the
men we
married?
114.
... men, we
were honest with no one ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
Unwilling to be
honest
with these
sympathetic men, we were
honest with no one
else.
115.
... men were
not drinking to escape; they ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
116.
... men who
cry for money and shelter ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
The
men who
cry for
money and
shelter before
conquering alcohol, are
on the
wrong track.
117.
... men who
drink too much.
BB p.104,
To Wives
118.
... men who
felt the same way.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
I have since
talked with
scores of
men who
felt the same way.
119.
... men who
had, for example, worked a ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
I have had many
men who had, for
example,
worked a
period of
months on some
problem or
business deal which was to be
settled
on a
certain date,
favorably to them.
120.
... men who
have had experience with the ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
121.
... men who
have lost their legs; they ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
We are like
men who have
lost
their
legs; they
never grow new
ones.
122.
... men who
have such experiences.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
The
good doctor now sees
many
men who have such
experiences.
123.
... men who
loved their wives and children ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
How could
men who
loved their
wives and
children be so
unthinking, so
callous, so
cruel?
124.
... men who
want to stop, and with ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
But there are many
men who
want to
stop, and with them you
can go far.
125.
... men who
would die because they would ...
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
But what about his
responsibilities --
his
family and the
men who
would
die because they would not
know how to get well,
ah -- yes,
those other
alcoholics?
126.
... men, whose
stories I have heard, there ...
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
As to
two of you
men, whose
stories I have
heard, there
is no
doubt in my
mind that
you were
100%
hopeless,
apart from
divine help.
127.
... men will
have shaped their own destiny.
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
128.
... men will
try to take advantage of ...
BB p.141,
To Employers
Seeing your
attempt to
understand and
help, some
men will
try to take
advantage of your
kindness.
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