From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... prospect.
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
2.
... prospect.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
3.
... prospect.
BB p.148,
To Employers
4.
... prospect.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
5.
... prospect all
right but, by the description, ...
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
6.
... prospect does
not respond at once.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
7.
... prospect for
Alcoholics Anonymous, find out all ...
BB p.90,
Working With Others
8.
... prospect has
made such reparation as he ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
When your prospect has made such reparation as he can
to his family, and has thoroughly explained
to them the new principles by which he is living, he should proceed to
put those principles into action at
home.
9.
... prospect, I
fumbled and came up with ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
10.
... prospect may
belong to a religious denomination.
BB p.93,
Working With Others
11.
... prospect more
receptive.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
12.
... prospect of
a society composed almost entirely ...
12&12 p.181,
Tradition Eleven
By temperament, nearly every one of us had been an irrepressible promoter, and the prospect of
a society composed almost entirely of promoters was frightening.
13.
... prospect of
actually visiting or even writing ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
But the prospect of actually visiting or even writing the people concerned now overwhelmed us, especially when we remembered in what poor favor we stood with most of
them.
14.
... prospect of
work, we stay lazy.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
15.
... prospect that
he is a man with ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
That the man who is making
the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with a real answer, that he has no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that
there are no fees to pay, no axes
to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured -- these are the conditions we have found
most effective.
16.
... prospect that
his recovery is not dependent ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
17.
... prospect, the
ten thousand dollars under consideration ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
Compared to this prospect,
the ten thousand dollars under consideration wasn't much, but like the alcoholic's first drink it would, if taken, inevitably set up a disastrous chain reaction.
18.
... prospect --
unless he has to do these ...
12&12 p.24,
Step One
No, the average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme,
doesn't care for this prospect
-- unless he has to do these things in order to stay alive himself.
19.
... prospect will
see he is under no ...
BB p.91,
Working With Others
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