From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... pay."
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
2.
... pay.
BB p.78,
Into Action
3.
... pay.
BB p.143,
To Employers
If you propose such a procedure to him, it may be necessary to advance the
cost of treatment, but we
believe it should be made
plain that any expense will later be deducted from his
pay.
4.
... pay a
nonalcoholic for the same job.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
5.
... pay --
and pay handsomely.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
6.
... pay anything,
believe anything, or conform to ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
Why did we dare to say, contrary to the experience of society
and government everywhere, that we would neither punish nor deprive any A.A. of membership, that we must never compel anyone to pay anything, believe anything, or conform to anything?
7.
... pay dearly
for skimping this Step.
12&12 p.56,
Step Five
8.
... pay dividends.
BB p.141,
To Employers
9.
... pay dividends
only if he mines it ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
He may not see at once that he
has barely scratched a
limitless lode which will pay dividends only if he mines
it for the rest of his life
and insists on giving away the entire product.
10.
... pay envelopes
home.
BB p.106,
To Wives
11.
... pay for
this presumption in all sorts ...
BB p.87,
Into Action
12.
... pay handsomely.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
13.
... pay him,
or even to love him.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
14.
... pay its
bills, that's really news.
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
When a society composed
entirely of alcoholics says it's going to pay its bills, that's really news.
15.
... pay my
bills at the bars and ...
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
Sometimes a small deal would net a few hundred dollars, and I would pay my bills at the bars and delicatessens.
16.
... pay, no
axes to grind, no people ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
That the man who is making
the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with
a real answer, that he has
no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that
there are no fees to pay, no axes to
grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured -- these are the conditions we have found
most effective.
17.
... pay off
after all.
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
18.
... pay, or
promise to pay, whatever obligations, ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
19.
... pay ourselves.
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
20.
... pay the
penalty by a spree.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
21.
... pay the
price.
BB p.108,
To Wives
Especially when he has before him a way to stop his drinking and abuse if he really wants to pay the price.
22.
... pay them
well, and they earn what ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
23.
... pay to
take another look down the ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
Even if you feel your organization has no alcoholic problem, it
might pay to take another look down the line.
24.
... pay up.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
25.
... pay very
dearly physically and, in hope ...
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
By this time I was beginning to pay very dearly physically and, in hope of
relief, voluntarily
incarcerated myself
at least a dozen times in one of the local sanitariums.
26.
... pay, we
would pay."
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
27.
... pay, whatever
obligations, financial or otherwise, we ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
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