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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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1.
... nobody can be punished or expelled.   12&12 p.129, Tradition One
No A.A. can compel another to do anything; nobody can be punished or expelled.

2.
... nobody can keep you out.   12&12 p.139, Tradition Three
You can declare yourself in; nobody can keep you out.

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 could tell what had been drunk, ...   BB p.178, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 178 in the Big Book
It then occurred to me that after one was all smelled up with beer nobody could tell what had been drunk, so I began to fortify my beer with straight alcohol.

5.
... 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.


6.
... nobody ever got drunk on beer.   BB p.177, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 177 in the Big Book
It was harmless; nobody ever got drunk on beer.


7.
... nobody ever had to throw me down ...   BB p.181, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 181 in the Big Book
So it doesn't behoove me to squawk about it for, after all, nobody ever had to throw me down and pour liquor down my throat.

8.
... nobody has it.   12&12 p.65, Step Six
In an absolute sense practically nobody has it.

9.
Nobody is going to meddle with our ...   12&12 p.37, Step Three
Nobody is going to meddle with our personal independence in such matters.


10.
... nobody now.   BB p.157, A Vision For You   Go to page 157 in the Big Book
I was once, but I'm a nobody now.

11.
... nobody stirred.   12&12 p.144, Tradition Three
But this time nobody stirred.

12.
... 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.'


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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