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PERSON occurs
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1.
... person.
BB
Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
Many do not
comprehend
that the
alcoholic is a
very sick person.
2.
... person.
BB
Into Action, p.72
3.
... person.
BB
Into Action, p.74
4.
... person.
BB
Into Action, p.74
We
say this
because we are
very anxious that we
talk to the
right person.
5.
... person.
BB
Into Action, p.81
We
feel we
ought to
say to her that we have
no right to
involve another person.
6.
... person.
BB
Working With Others, p.90
They should be
patient,
realizing they are
dealing
with a
sick person.
7.
... person.
BB
To Wives, p.108
8.
... person.
12&12
Step Five, p.56
9.
... person.
12&12
Step Five, p.60
10.
... person alone,
he may soon become convinced ...
BB
Working With Others, p.96
If you
leave such a
person alone, he may
soon become convinced that he cannot
recover by
himself.
11.
... person and
should be treated accordingly.
BB
Working With Others, p.100
But
urge upon a
man's
family that he has been a
very sick person and should be
treated accordingly.
12.
... person; and
we were not above selfishness ...
BB
To Wives, p.116
13.
... person at
once?
BB
Into Action, p.86
Have we
kept something to
ourselves which should be
discussed with
another
person at
once?
14.
... person available.
BB
Into Action, p.74
15.
... person, but
we are sure we would ...
BB
Into Action, p.78
We have
already admitted
this in
confidence to
another person, but we are
sure we would be
imprisoned
or
lose our
job if it were
known.
16.
... person can
experience an entire psychic change ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
17.
... person can
quit upon a nonspiritual basis ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
18.
... person capable
of enough willingness and honesty ...
12&12
Step Six, p.63
19.
... person concerned,
and lay our cards on ...
12&12
Step Nine, p.85
20.
... person concerned
not being present, we thought ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.94
21.
... person continue
to turn his will and ...
12&12
Step Three, p.39
So how,
exactly, can the
willing person continue to
turn his
will and his
life over to the
Higher Power?
22.
... person could
never be the same again.
12&12
Step One, p.23
It was then
discovered that when
one alcoholic had
planted in the
mind of
another the
true nature of his
malady, that
person could
never be the
same again.
23.
... person could
surely not be called a ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.168
24.
... person's expense.
BB
Into Action, p.74
We have
no right to
save our
own skin at
another person's
expense.
25.
... person facts
about ourselves which no others ...
12&12
Step Five, p.61
26.
... person fail
who has thoroughly followed our ...
BB
How It Works, p.58
27.
... person for
a whole day, or maybe ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.91
28.
... person for
guidance and protection.
12&12
Step Four, p.43
29.
... person for
whom we pray.
12&12
Step Eleven, p.104
30.
... person has
cancer all are sorry for ...
BB
There Is A Solution, p.18
If a
person has
cancer all are
sorry for him and
no one is
angry or
hurt.
31.
... person, I
have profound respect for the ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.43
32.
... person, I
might have followed in their ...
BB
To Employers, p.137
And but for the
intervention of an
understanding person, I
might have
followed in their
footsteps.
33.
... person imposes
his instincts unreasonably upon others, ...
12&12
Step Four, p.44
34.
... person in
his line of business.
BB
A Vision For You, p.156
He
trembled as he
went
about, for this might
mean ruin,
particularly to a
person
in his
line of
business.
35.
... person in
whom to confide.
12&12
Contents (Step Five), p.6
How to
choose the
person in
whom to
confide.
36.
... person in
whom we are to confide.
12&12
Step Five, p.60
Our
next problem will be to
discover the
person in whom we are to
confide.
37.
... person involved
entirely.
BB
How It Works, p.67
38.
... person is
in danger.
BB
To Wives, p.109
We
think this
person is in
danger.
39.
... person is
like an actor who wants ...
BB
How It Works, p.60
40.
... person is,
of course, very ancient.
12&12
Step Five, p.56
41.
... person is
that we can get his ...
12&12
Step Five, p.60
The
benefit of
talking to
another person is that we can
get his
direct comment and
counsel on our
situation, and there can be
no
doubt in our
minds what that
advice is.
42.
... person, it
confirms that we have been ...
12&12
Step Five, p.60
When we are
honest with
another person, it
confirms that we have been
honest with
ourselves and
with
God.
43.
... person, it
frequently takes great resolution to ...
12&12
Step Five, p.61
Even when you've
found the
person, it
frequently takes great resolution to
approach
him or her.
44.
... person likes
to think he is bodily ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.30
45.
... person may
turn out to be one's ...
12&12
Step Five, p.61
This
person may
turn out to be
one's
sponsor, but not
necessarily so.
46.
... person most
interested in him -- usually his ...
BB
Working With Others, p.90
If there is
any indication
that he
wants to
stop, have a
good talk with the
person most
interested in him --
usually his
wife.
47.
... person offended
we said to ourselves, "This ...
BB
How It Works, p.67
When a
person offended we
said to
ourselves, "This is a
sick man.
48.
... person or
argue.
BB
Into Action, p.77
49.
... person or
persons with whom to take ...
BB
Into Action, p.74
50.
... person, our
emotions go on the defensive.
12&12
Step Eight, p.78
51.
... person, place,
thing or situation as being ...
BB
Acceptance, p.417
When I am
disturbed, it is
because I
find some
person,
place,
thing or
situation -- some
fact of my
life --
unacceptable to me, and I can
find no serenity until I
accept that
person,
place,
thing or
situation as
being exactly the
way it is
supposed to be at this
moment.
52.
... person, place,
thing or situation -- some fact ...
BB
Acceptance, p.417
When I am
disturbed, it is
because I
find some
person,
place,
thing or
situation -- some
fact of my
life --
unacceptable to me, and I can
find no serenity until I
accept that
person,
place,
thing or
situation as
being exactly the
way it is
supposed to be at this
moment.
53.
... person places
sex desire ahead of everything ...
12&12
Step Four, p.43
54.
... person quick
to see and understand our ...
BB
Into Action, p.74
55.
... person should
head the job?
12&12
Tradition Six, p.157
But what
kind of
person should
head the
job?
56.
... person sobered
up, and after doing all ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
For
example, we may
set our
hearts on
getting a
particular person sobered up, and
after doing all we can for
months, we
see him
relapse.
57.
... person, such
as our wife, best friend, ...
BB
How It Works, p.63
58.
... person unless
we are sure he would ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.125
59.
... person upon
whom she can vent jealousy.
BB
Into Action, p.82
It is
better, however, that
one
does not
needlessly name a
person upon whom she can
vent jealousy.
60.
... person wants,
for example, to eat, to ...
12&12
Step Six, p.64
61.
... person we
dislike, we take the bit ...
BB
Into Action, p.77
Nevertheless, with a
person we
dislike, we
take the
bit in our
teeth.
62.
... person when
we see good reasons why ...
BB
Into Action, p.72
63.
... person who
has had experience with an ...
BB
Working With Others, p.101
To a
person who has had
experience with an
alcoholic, this may
seem like tempting Providence, but it isn't.
64.
... person who
has recovered.
BB
Working With Others, p.90
If he
says yes, then his
attention should be
drawn to
you as a
person who has
recovered.
65.
... person who
lives with a woman alcoholic ...
BB
To Wives (Note), p.104
66.
... person who
seemed doomed, who had so ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
67.
... person who
wants to eat in a ...
BB
Working With Others, p.102
If you are with a
person who
wants to
eat in a
bar, by all
means go along.
68.
... person whose
support can be obtained.
12&12
Tradition Eleven, p.181
69.
... person with
God on his side.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.129
Dad may
feel that for
years his
drinking has
placed him on the
wrong side of
every argument, but that
now he has
become a
superior person with
God on his
side.
70.
... person, with
this qualification -- being perhaps fatally ...
BB
To Employers, p.142
71.
... person, you
had better use everyday language ...
BB
Working With Others, p.93
72.
... person, you
will have created a new ...
BB
To Wives, p.115
When you have
carefully explained to
such people that he is a
sick person, you
will have
created a
new atmosphere.
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