From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... philosophic procedure
which can prove a recovery ...
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Any therapeutic or philosophic procedure which can
prove a recovery rate of 50% to 60% must merit our consideration."
2.
... philosophic thought
were so derived.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
We had long talks when I
would still her forebodings by telling
her that men of genius conceived their best projects when drunk; that
the most majestic constructions of philosophic thought were so derived.
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