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... needed.
12&12
Step Three, p.35
2.
... needed.
12&12
Step Three, p.36
3.
... needed a
great big alcoholic center, a ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.147
They figured the town needed a great big alcoholic center, a kind of pilot plant A.A. groups could duplicate everywhere.
4.
... needed a
lot of money; that A.A. ...
12&12
Tradition Five, p.153
Suppose my answer had to be
that A.A. needed a lot of money; that A.A. went in for education, hospitals, and
rehabilitation?
5.
... needed an
overhauling there.
BB
How It Works, p.68
6.
... needed and
wanted God.
BB
Bill's Story, p.12
7.
... needed care.
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.170
Now and then, A.A. members have bought farms or rest homes where badly beat-up topers could find needed care.
8.
... needed, if
we kept close to Him ...
BB
How It Works, p.63
Being all powerful, He provided what we needed, if we
kept close to Him and performed His work well.
9.
... needed it.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.171
No beer or liquor was sold in the neighborhood, except at
the State liquor agency where perhaps one might procure a pint if he could convince the
agent that he really needed it.
10.
... needed it,
when our real motive was ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.94
We "constructively criticized" someone who
needed it, when our real motive was to win a useless argument.
11.
... needed money,
we could become immensely rich.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.164
Moreover, at the slightest intimation to
the general public from our
trustees that we needed money, we could become immensely rich.
12.
... needed or
wanted.
BB
Working With Others, pp.97-98
For the type of alcoholic
who is able and willing to get well, little charity, in the ordinary sense of the word, is needed or wanted.
13.
... needed postage
stamps.
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.177
A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred
thousand dollars would appear at an A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.
14.
... needed power
wasn't there.
BB
We Agnostics, p.45
We could wish to be moral, we
could wish to be philosophically comforted, in fact, we could
will these things with all our
might, but the needed power
wasn't there.
15.
... needed support.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.97
And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we
likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our
intuitions of vitally
needed support.
16.
... needed that
ten thousand dollars.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.164
17.
... needed the
money for groceries, but that ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.162
18.
... needed this
help.
BB
To Wives, p.116
19.
... needed to
ask ourselves but one short ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
20.
... needed to
be publicized.
12&12
Tradition Twelve, p.186
21.
... needed to
be told what alcoholism was, ...
12&12
Tradition Six, p.155
People needed to be told what alcoholism was, so
we'd educate the public, even rewrite school and medical textbooks.
22.
... needed to
change ourselves to meet conditions, ...
12&12
Step Four, p.47
23.
... needed to
commence spiritual growth, to effect ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with God as we understood Him.
24.
... needed to
consider the others, and in ...
12&12
Tradition One, p.131
Each needed to consider the others, and in
abiding faith they knew they must find their real strength.
25.
... needed to
get on with the business ...
12&12
Step Seven, pp.71-72
True, most of us thought good character was desirable, but obviously
good character was something one needed to get on with the business of being self-satisfied.
26.
... needed to
produce the essential psychic change.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
27.
... needed vast
sums of money to the ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.161
As A.A. emerged from its infancy into adolescence, we swung from
the idea that we needed vast sums of money to the notion that A.A. shouldn't have any.
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