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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

personality
personally
personnel
PERSONS   occurs   13 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
perspective
persuade
persuaded

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1.
... persons.    BB p.16,  Bill's Story   Go to page 16 in the Big Book
At these informal gatherings one may often see from 50 to 200 persons.


2.
... persons.    BB p.133,  The Family Afterward   Go to page 133 in the Big Book
Do not hesitate to take your health problems to such persons.


3.
... persons is often desirable, but we let ...    BB p.70,  How It Works   Go to page 69 in the Big Book
Counsel with persons is often desirable, but we let God be the final judge.

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   Go to page 49 in the Big Book
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
A.A., they pointed out, included many persons of local, national, or international fame.


7.
... persons, we are an accurate cross section ...    BB xx,  Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire 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
"Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all."


9.
... persons we had harmed, and became willing ...    BB p.59,  How It Works   Go to page 59 in the Big Book
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.


10.
... persons we have harmed and to whom ...    BB p.76,  Into Action   Go to page 76 in the Big Book
We have a list of all persons we have harmed and to whom we are willing to make amends.


11.
... persons, we thought.    BB p.107,  To Wives   Go to page 107 in the Big Book
There could be no love in such persons, we thought.


12.
... persons who really feels there is something ...    BB p.135,  The Family Afterward   Go to page 135 in the Big Book
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   Go to page 74 in the Big Book
Rightly and naturally, we think well before we choose the person or persons with whom to take this intimate and confidential step.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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