From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... persons.
BB p.16,
Bill's Story
2.
... persons.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
3.
... persons is
often desirable, but we let ...
BB p.70,
How It Works
4.
... persons, made
no effort to harvest food ...
12&12 p.42,
Step Four
If men and women didn't exert themselves to be secure in their persons, made no effort to harvest food or construct shelter, there would be no survival.
5.
... persons of
all races, colors, and creeds ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
We used to amuse ourselves by cynically
dissecting spiritual beliefs and practices when we might have observed that many spiritually-minded persons of all races, colors, and creeds were demonstrating a degree
of stability, happiness and usefulness which we should have sought ourselves.
6.
... persons of
local, national, or international fame.
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
7.
... persons, we
are an accurate cross section ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Alcohol being no respecter of persons, we are an accurate cross section of America, and in distant lands, the same democratic evening-up process is now going on.
8.
... persons we
had harmed, and became willing ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
9.
... persons we
had harmed, and became willing ...
BB p.59,
How It Works
10.
... persons we
have harmed and to whom ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
11.
... persons, we
thought.
BB p.107,
To Wives
12.
... persons who
really feels there is something ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
His wife is one of those persons who really feels there is something rather sinful about these commodities, so she nagged, and her intolerance finally threw him into a fit of anger.
13.
... persons with
whom to take this intimate ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
Rightly and naturally,
we think well before we choose the person or persons with whom to
take this intimate and confidential step.
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