From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... nobody can
be punished or expelled.
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
2.
... nobody can
keep you out.
12&12 p.139,
Tradition Three
3.
... nobody could
have possibly joined A.A. at ...
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
If all those rules had been in effect everywhere, nobody could have possibly joined A.A. at all, so great was the sum of our anxiety and fear.
4.
... nobody does
the group's chores, if the ...
12&12 p.175,
Tradition Nine
If nobody does the group's chores, if the area's telephone rings unanswered, if we do not reply to our mail, then A.A. as we know it would stop.
5.
... nobody has
it.
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
6.
Nobody is
going to meddle with our ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
7.
... nobody now.
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
I was once, but I'm a nobody now.
8.
... nobody stirred.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
9.
... nobody to
A.A. but that hypothetical class ...
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
"We were resolved to admit nobody to A.A. but that hypothetical
class of people we termed
'pure alcoholics.'
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