From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... numbers.
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
They grew in numbers.
2.
... numbers and
power.(*)
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
3.
... numbers increase,
we hope your employees may ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
As our work spreads and our
numbers increase, we hope your employees may be
put in personal contact with some of us.
4.
... numbers of
alcoholic men and women to ...
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.
5.
... numbers of
erstwhile erratic alcoholics successfully meet ...
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
The test that it faced was
this: Could these large numbers of erstwhile erratic alcoholics successfully meet and work together?
6.
... numbers of
incoming people might break our ...
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
Between these lines, it is
easy to read our fear that large numbers of incoming people might break our anonymity wide open.
7.
... numbers of
people, it has also touched ...
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
As the message of recovery has reached larger numbers of people, it has also touched the lives of a vastly greater variety of suffering alcoholics.
8.
... numbers of
potential alcoholics among young people ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
We, who are familiar with the symptoms, see large numbers of potential alcoholics
among young people everywhere.
9.
... numbers of
recoveries, and reunited homes.
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
10.
... numbers of
such experiences, we could predict ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
From great numbers of such experiences, we could
predict that the doubter
who still claimed that he
hadn't got the "spiritual
angle," and who still considered his well-loved A.A. group the higher power, would presently love God and call Him by name.
11.
... numbers of
these -- about two out of ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
12.
... numbers of
yet erratic people could live ...
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
But it was by no means sure that such great numbers of yet erratic people could live and work together with harmony and good effect.
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