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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... pay."
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
We soon
concluded that whatever
price in
humility we
must pay, we would
pay."
2.
... pay.
BB p.78,
Into Action
Our
drinking has made us
slow to
pay.
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
If we
hired an
alcoholic, he'd
receive
only what we'd have to
pay a
nonalcoholic for the same
job.
5.
... pay --
and pay handsomely.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
Thoroughness, we have
found, will
pay -- and
pay handsomely.
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
An
armored car could not
have brought the
pay envelopes home.
11.
... pay for
this presumption in all sorts ...
BB p.87,
Into Action
We might
pay for this
presumption in all
sorts
of
absurd actions and
ideas.
12.
... pay handsomely.
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
Thoroughness, we have
found, will
pay -- and
pay handsomely.
13.
... pay him,
or even to love him.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
He does not
expect his
brother sufferer to
pay him, or even to
love him.
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
We
begin to
think that
A.A. doesn't
pay off after all.
18.
... pay, or
promise to pay, whatever obligations, ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
We can
pay, or
promise to
pay, whatever
obligations,
financial or
otherwise,
we
owe.
19.
... pay ourselves.
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
These
simple services
would
require small sums of
money which we could and
would
pay ourselves.
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
We
pay them well, and they
earn what they get.
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
But finally he said it -- the
landlord would
put us out if we didn't
pay up.
25.
... pay, we
would pay."
12&12 p.31,
Step Two
We soon
concluded that whatever
price in
humility we
must pay, we would
pay."
26.
... pay, whatever
obligations, financial or otherwise, we ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
We can
pay, or
promise to
pay, whatever
obligations,
financial or
otherwise,
we
owe.
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