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1.
... often able,
intelligent, friendly people.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
2.
... often as
we can.
BB
A Vision For You, p.162
Those of us who
travel drop in as
often as we can.
3.
... often ask
ourselves, "Am I doing to ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.93
And we can
often ask ourselves, "Am I
doing to
others as I would have them do to me --
today?"
4.
... often asked:
"Why can't we take a ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.103
5.
... often astonish
us.
12&12
Step Nine, p.84
6.
... often at
this stage they are not.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.133
But
more often at this
stage they are not.
7.
... often become
conscious of God as they ...
12&12
Step Five, p.62
8.
... often been
led to the bottle and ...
12&12
Step Four, p.45
This is not a
moral inventory at all; it is the
very process by which the
depressive has so
often been
led to the
bottle and
extinction.
9.
... often begins
to assert himself.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.131
10.
... often caused
the people we had loved ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.115
This
often caused the
people we had
loved most to
push us
aside or
perhaps desert us
entirely.
11.
... often check
ourselves by remembering that we ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.92
As an
insurance against
"
big-
shot-
ism" we can
often check ourselves by
remembering that we are
today sober only by the
grace of
God and that
any success we may be having is
far more His
success than
ours.
12.
... often come
strongly.
BB
Into Action, p.75
13.
... often continued
to haunt us.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.121
14.
... often desirable,
but we let God be ...
BB
How It Works, pp.69-70
15.
... often difficult
to deal with.
BB
To Wives, p.110
Oddly enough, he is
often difficult to
deal with.
16.
... often discover
a greater challenge in the ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
17.
... often disputed
question of whether God can ...
12&12
Step Six, p.63
18.
... often do?
12&12
Step Twelve, p.113
Can we
now, with the
help of
God as we
understand Him,
handle them as
well and as
bravely as our
nonalcoholic friends
often do?
19.
... often doing
thankless tasks that no one ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.167
Ignoring the
fact that these
labors were not
Twelfth Step jobs at all, the
critics attacked as
A.A. professionals these
workers of
ours who were
often doing thankless tasks that
no one else
could or would do.
20.
... often done
their worst.
12&12
Step Four, p.51
In these
areas fear,
greed,
possessiveness,
and
pride have too
often done their
worst.
21.
... often employs
a full-time secretary.
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.565
22.
... often employs
a full-time secretary.
12&12
Tradition Nine (Long), p.191
23.
... often enable
us to clear a channel ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.103
24.
... often enhance
such unions.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.119
25.
... often far
exceed their proper functions.
12&12
Step Four, p.42
26.
... often feels
very remorseful at times, especially ...
BB
Into Action, p.81
27.
... often find
such a person quick to ...
BB
Into Action, p.74
28.
... often follow
such a reunion.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.134
29.
... often forget
father was beyond human aid.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.128
30.
... often found
ourselves handicapped by obstinacy, sensitiveness, ...
BB
We Agnostics, pp.47-48
31.
... often found
this the best course to ...
BB
Into Action, p.81
32.
... often friends
of the newcomer are aware ...
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
33.
... often get
quite far off the beam.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.112
34.
... often gets
entirely out of hand when ...
BB
To Wives, p.109
35.
... often getting
a misshapen and painful pleasure ...
12&12
Step Four, p.45
36.
... often going
much too far in the ...
12&12
Step Twelve, pp.120-121
37.
... often had
difficulty in realizing how hopeless ...
12&12
Step One, p.22
38.
... often have
little idea how prevalent this ...
BB
To Employers, p.149
39.
... often have
some of us begun to ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.24
How
often have some of us
begun
to
drink in this
nonchalant way, and
after the
third or
fourth,
pounded on the
bar and
said to
ourselves, "For
God's
sake, how did I
ever get started again?"
40.
... often have
we heard them cry out, ...
12&12
Step Two, p.25
How
often have we
heard them
cry out, "
Look
what you
people have
done to
us!
41.
... often helpful,
of course depending upon a ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.133
42.
... often, however,
the thoughts that seem to ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.103
Quite often, however, the
thoughts that
seem to
come from
God are not
answers at all.
43.
... often in
a difficult position.
BB
To Employers, p.147
These
juniors are
often in a
difficult position.
44.
... often in
good cheer.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
45.
... often indispensable
in treating a newcomer and ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.133
46.
... often intensely
disliked.
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
47.
... often is
not enough.
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
Although he
gives all that
is in him, it
often is not
enough.
48.
Often it
was while working on this ...
12&12
Step Five, p.58
49.
... often jeopardize
their own positions by trying ...
BB
To Employers, p.147
50.
... often led
straight to the bottle.
12&12
Step Ten, p.90
51.
... often let
him feel it.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.126
They are all
disappointed, and
often let him
feel it.
52.
... often let
these far exceed their intended ...
12&12
Step Six, p.65
Since most of us are
born with an
abundance of
natural desires, it isn't
strange
that we
often let these
far exceed their
intended purpose.
53.
... often lie
in preparing the way for ...
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
54.
... often maintain
local offices where alcoholics or ...
BB
Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A., p.573
55.
... often makes
the difference between failure and ...
BB
Working With Others, p.98
56.
... often manufacture
plausible excuses for dodging these ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.85
57.
... often may
impose on you.
BB
To Employers, p.141
Of
course that isn't so, and
such people often may
impose on you.
58.
... often misunderstood.
12&12
Step Five, p.58
59.
... often near.
BB
To Wives, p.107
60.
... often need
it to carry green recruits ...
BB
Working With Others, p.102
61.
... often obliged
to treat father as a ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.130
62.
... often observed,
defiance is the outstanding characteristic ...
12&12
Step Two, p.31
63.
... often overcomes
his excessive concentration upon himself.
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
64.
... often pass
through Twelfth Step experiences where ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.110
65.
... often pay
dearly for skimping this Step.
12&12
Step Five, p.56
66.
... often perfectly
sensible and well balanced concerning ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.21
67.
... often pondered
these things.
BB
Bill's Story, p.10
I had
often pondered these
things.
68.
... often possesses
special abilities, skills, and aptitudes, ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.21
69.
... often produces
the contrary effect.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.125
70.
... often prove
more solid and formidable for ...
12&12
Step Two, p.28
71.
... often quite
wrong.
BB
How It Works, pp.65-66
72.
... often recover
overnight nor do twisted thinking ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.133
73.
... often remains
strong in other respects.
BB
Bill's Story, p.7
74.
... often requires
a definite hospital procedure, before ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, pp.xxvii-xxviii
75.
... often revolt.
12&12
Step Four, p.44
76.
... often said
right here in this meeting ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.138
'
Bill, haven't you
often said right here in this
meeting that
sometimes the
good is the
enemy of the
best?
77.
... often says
that if he had continued ...
BB
Working With Others, p.96
He
often says that if he had
continued to
work on them, he
might have
deprived many others, who have since
recovered, of their
chance.
78.
... often see
from 50 to 200 persons.
BB
Bill's Story, p.16
79.
... often seemed
a fool of the first ...
BB
To Employers, p.137
To him the
alcoholic has
often seemed a
fool of the
first magnitude.
80.
... often seems
like a very dubious and ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.106
81.
... often seems
no way of entirely getting ...
BB
How It Works, p.62
82.
... often set
right.(*)
12&12
Step Twelve, p.118
83.
... often should
not show it to his ...
BB
To Employers, p.148
He
need not, and
often should
not
show it to his
alcoholic prospect.
84.
... often some
of us will fit more ...
12&12
Step Four, p.48
But
just as
often some of us
will fit more
or
less into
both classifications.
85.
... often spurred
by religious and racial difference.
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.176
86.
... often staying
up all night.
BB
A Vision For You, p.158
87.
... often stemmed
from alcoholism.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.117
88.
... often such
men had spectacular and powerful ...
BB
To Wives, p.113
89.
... often surprised
how the right answers come ...
BB
Into Action, p.86
We are
often surprised how
the
right answers come after we have
tried this for a
while.
90.
... often suspect
they are down for the ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.23
But they
often suspect they
are
down for the
count.
91.
... often takes
place in a few months ...
BB
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
92.
... often tend
to slight serious meditation and ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.96
93.
... often than
not, it is imperative that ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
More often than not, it is
imperative that a
man's
brain be
cleared before he is
approached, as
he has then a
better chance
of
understanding and
accepting what we have to
offer.
94.
... often than
not, these onslaughts were spearheaded ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.170
95.
... often the
breadwinner.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.118
If the
man is
affected, the
wife must become the
head of the
house,
often the
breadwinner.
96.
... often the
difference between life and death.
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
97.
Often these
personalities are just as sharply ...
12&12
Step Four, p.48
98.
... often they
are based upon a supposition ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.104
99.
... often think
of another case brought in ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
100.
Often this
is not so at all.
BB
To Employers, p.145
Often this is not so at all.
101.
... often, though,
we had met up with ...
12&12
Step Two, p.31
102.
... often three,
got to be routine.
BB
Bill's Story, p.5
103.
... often throw
to the winds every chance ...
12&12
Step Four, p.44
104.
... often to
condemn him to endless misery.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.141
105.
... often to
our consternation, that this is ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.73
Then we
learn,
often to our
consternation, that this is only the
first milestone on the
new road we are
walking.
106.
... often took
a long time.
12&12
Step Four, p.47
107.
... often tread
on even more dangerous ground ...
12&12
Step Six, p.66
108.
... often truly
childish.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.123
We would not
believe that our
adult dreams were
often truly childish.
109.
... often try
to do much the same ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
And
though sober nowadays, don't we
often try to do
much the
same thing?
110.
... often turn
into the real thing and ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.33
111.
... often tyrannize
us.
12&12
Step Four, p.42
112.
... often unbearable
-- could be extended almost indefinitely.
12&12
Step Eight, p.81
113.
... often warned
us that nothing can so ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.564
114.
... often warned
us that nothing can so ...
12&12
Tradition Seven (Long), p.191
115.
... often we
work hard with no better ...
12&12
Step Six, p.67
And how
often we
work hard with
no better motive than to be
secure and
slothful later on -- only we
call that "
retiring."
116.
... often with
fine results.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.119
117.
... often wondered
what we might do about ...
12&12
Tradition Two, p.137
We've
often wondered what we
might do about it.
118.
... often years
before the onset of extreme ...
12&12
Step One, p.23
119.
Often you
must carry the burden of ...
BB
To Wives, p.117
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