From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... positive genius
for getting tight at exactly ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
He has a positive genius for
getting tight at exactly the wrong moment, particularly
when some important decision must be made or engagement kept.
2.
... positive he
can handle his liquor, that ...
BB p.109,
To Wives
He is positive he can handle
his liquor, that it does him no harm, that drinking is necessary in
his business.
3.
... positive he
is one of this type ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
4.
... positive that
face-to-face work with the alcoholic ...
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Almost from the beginning, we have been positive that face-to-face work with the alcoholic who suffers
could be based only on the desire to help and be helped.
5.
... positive that
he will do better.
BB p.109,
To Wives
6.
... positive that
once he takes any alcohol ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
We are equally positive
that once he takes any alcohol whatever into his system,
something happens, both in the bodily and mental sense, which makes it virtually impossible for him to stop.
7.
... positive that
this humiliating experience, plus the ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
He was positive that this humiliating experience, plus the knowledge he had acquired, would keep him sober the rest of his life.
8.
... positive thinking.
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
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