From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
NATION occurs
4 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... nation, a
church, a political party, even ...
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
Did anyone ever
hear of a
nation, a
church, a
political party, even a
benevolent association that had no
membership rules?
2.
... nation had
won a war or lost ...
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
We had to
drink because our
nation had
won a
war or
lost a
peace.
3.
... nation, in
fact every form of society, ...
12&12 p.172,
Tradition Nine
Therefore, every
nation, in
fact every
form of
society, has to be a
government administered by
human beings.
4.
... nation; the
minister who sighs over the ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
He is like the
retired business man who
lolls in the
Florida sunshine in the
winter complaining of the
sad state of the
nation; the
minister who
sighs over the
sins of the
twentieth century;
politicians
and
reformers who are
sure all would be
Utopia if the
rest of the
world would only
behave; the
outlaw safe cracker who
thinks society has
wronged him; and the
alcoholic who has
lost all
and is
locked up.
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