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... plain case
of it.
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
2.
... plain crackpots,
and fallen women were definitely ...
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
So beggars, tramps, asylum inmates, prisoners, queers, plain crackpots, and fallen women were definitely out.
3.
... Plain Dealer
articles about us ran that ...
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
Cleveland's Plain Dealer articles about us ran that town's membership from a few into
hundreds overnight.
4.
... plain for
everybody to see that each ...
12&12 p.64,
Step Six
It is plain for everybody
to see that each sober A.A. member has been granted a release from this very obstinate and potentially fatal obsession.
5.
... plain he
is under no obligation to ...
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Make it plain he is under no obligation to you, that you hope only that he will try to help other alcoholics when he
escapes his own difficulties.
6.
... plain insanity.
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
7.
... plain line
of cleavage could be seen ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
At last, however, a plain line of cleavage could be seen between professionalism and nonprofessionalism.
8.
... plain ordinary
whoopee parties.
BB p.101,
Working With Others
9.
... plain that
a life which includes deep ...
BB p.66,
How It Works
10.
... plain that
any expense will later be ...
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.
11.
... plain that
few of us can quickly ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Therefore, it seems
plain that few of us can quickly or easily become ready to aim at spiritual and moral perfection; we want to settle for only as much perfection as will get us by in life, according, of course, to our various and
sundry ideas of what will get us by.
12.
... plain that
the grace of God will ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
It seems plain that the grace of God will not enter to expel our destructive obsessions until we are willing to try this.
13.
... plain that
the group must survive or ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
14.
... plain that
they were sorely mistaken.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
How many times have we heard well-intentioned people claim the guidance of God when it was all too plain that
they were sorely mistaken.
15.
... plain that
we couldn't be a secret ...
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
Our growth made it plain that we couldn't be a secret
society, but it was equally plain that we couldn't
be a vaudeville circuit, either.
16.
... plain that
we couldn't be a vaudeville ...
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
Our growth made it plain that we couldn't be a secret
society, but it was equally plain that we couldn't
be a vaudeville circuit, either.
17.
... plain to
anyone.
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
18.
... plain to
him."
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
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