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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PROMPTLY occurs
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1.
... promptly.
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
By this
time, at
Step Ten, we had
begun to get a
basis for
daily living, and we
keenly realized that we would
need
to
continue taking personal inventory, and
that when we were in the
wrong we ought to
admit it
promptly.
2.
... promptly admit
it -- to ourselves always, and ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Whenever we
fail any of
these people, we can
promptly admit it -- to ourselves always, and to them also, when
the
admission would be
helpful.
3.
... promptly admitted
it."
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
"
Continued to take
personal inventory and
when we were
wrong promptly
admitted it."
4.
... promptly admitted
it.
BB p.59,
How It Works
10.
Continued to take
personal inventory and
when we were
wrong promptly
admitted it.
5.
... promptly and
without regret.
BB p.64,
How It Works
One
object is to
disclose damaged or
unsalable goods, to get
rid of them
promptly and without
regret.
6.
... promptly eliminated
at the next election if ...
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
Every one of them may be
promptly eliminated at the
next election if they
try this.
7.
... promptly proves
by talking freely and easily, ...
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
8.
... promptly took
shape at New York, to ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
A
second small group promptly took
shape at New
York, to be
followed in
1937 with the
start of a
third at
Cleveland.
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