From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... professional?
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
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
4.
... professional class.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
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)
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
10.
... professional man
of recognized ability and both ...
BB p.171,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
My father was a professional
man of recognized ability and both my father and mother were most
active in church affairs.
11.
... professional men
have regained their standing.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
12.
... professional secretaries,(*)
but they certainly are not ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
13.
... professional success
ahead of spiritual development.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
Though some of his manifestations are alarming and disagreeable, we think
dad will be on a firmer foundation than
the man who is placing business or professional success ahead of spiritual development.
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