From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... paramount.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Four (Long)
2.
... paramount.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
3.
... paramount importance
to those afflicted with alcoholic ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
The subject presented
in this book seems to me to
be of paramount importance to those afflicted with alcoholic addiction.
4.
... paramount, it
is equally necessary that we ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
While the purpose of making restitution to others is paramount, it is equally necessary that we
extricate from an examination of our personal relations every bit of information about ourselves and our fundamental difficulties that we can.
5.
... paramount to
all other interests so that ...
BB xxix(xxvii),
The Doctor's Opinion
They took a drink a day or so prior to the date, and then the phenomenon of craving at
once became paramount to all other interests so that the important appointment
was not met.
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