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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PROFESSIONAL occurs
12 times
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1.
... professional?
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
'Don't you
realize,' he went on, 'that you can
never become a
professional?
2.
... professional A.A.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Then we saw that if a
hardworking secretary answered the
phone dozens of
times a
day,
listened to
twenty wailing wives,
arranged hospitalization and got
sponsorship for
ten newcomers, and was
gently
diplomatic with the
irate drunk who
complained about the
job she
was doing and how she was
overpaid, then such a
person could
surely not be
called a
professional A.A.
3.
... professional A.A.'s.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
They are
professional secretaries,(*) but they
certainly are not
professional A.A.'s.
4.
... professional class.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
Alcoholics Anonymous will
never have a
professional class.
5.
... professional class
of therapy.
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
It was
thought that no
alcoholic man or
woman could be
excluded from
our
Society; that our
leaders might
serve but
never govern; that each
group was to be
autonomous
and there was to be no
professional class of
therapy.
6.
... professional experience
to their service at G.S.O.
12&12 p.169,
Tradition Eight (Note)
These
A.A.'s bring a
wide range of
business and
professional experience to
their
service at
G.S.O.
7.
... professional folk,
we could not well carry ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
Being mostly
business or
professional folk, we could not well
carry on our
occupations in such an
event."
8.
... professional folk,
we could not well carry ...
BB xiii,
Foreword to First Edition
Being mostly
business or
professional folk, we could not well
carry on our
occupations in such an
event.
9.
... professional friends,
we, too, are aware that ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
Like our
professional friends, we, too, are
aware
that there are
wrong forms
of
dependence.
10.
... professional men
have regained their standing.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
Business and
professional
men have
regained their
standing.
11.
... professional secretaries,(*)
but they certainly are not ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
They are
professional secretaries,(*) but they
certainly are not
professional A.A.'s.
12.
... professional success
ahead of spiritual development.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
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