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1.
... prove a blessing!   BB p.116, To Wives   Go to page 116 in the Big Book
Maybe it will prove a blessing!


2.
... prove a blessing to him.   BB p.141, To Employers   Go to page 141 in the Big Book
Firing such an individual may prove a blessing to him.


3.
... prove a recovery rate of 50% to ...   BB p.569(571), Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix III
Any therapeutic or philosophic procedure which can prove a recovery rate of 50% to 60% must merit our consideration."


4.
... prove a straight line is the shortest ...   BB p.54, We Agnostics   Go to page 54 in the Big Book
We could not prove life in the sense that you can prove a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet, there it was.


5.
... prove exceptionally useful to business men everywhere.   BB p.136, To Employers   Go to page 136 in the Big Book
His present views ought to prove exceptionally useful to business men everywhere.

6.
... prove groundless?   12&12 p.140, Tradition Three
How could we then guess that all those fears were to prove groundless?

7.
... prove his pet theory wrong.   12&12 p.97, Step Eleven
But we recoiled from meditation and prayer as obstinately as the scientist who refused to perform a certain experiment lest it prove his pet theory wrong.


8.
... prove life in the sense that you ...   BB p.54, We Agnostics   Go to page 54 in the Big Book
We could not prove life in the sense that you can prove a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet, there it was.

9.
... prove more solid and formidable for these ...   12&12 p.28, Step Two
The roadblocks of indifference, fancied self-sufficiency, prejudice, and defiance often prove more solid and formidable for these people than any erected by the unconvinced agnostic or even the militant atheist.


10.
... prove so convincing that no further authentication ...   BB xiii, Foreword to First Edition   Display entire Foreword to First Edition
For them, we hope these pages will prove so convincing that no further authentication will be necessary.


11.
... prove that one alcoholic could affect another ...   BB xvi, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
This seemed to prove that one alcoholic could affect another as no nonalcoholic could.

12.
... prove the best bet.   12&12 p.61, Step Five
For some of us, a complete stranger may prove the best bet.


13.
... prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore ...   BB p.31, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 31 in the Big Book
By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic.

14.
... prove this.   12&12 p.161, Tradition Seven
Our reactions to money prove this.

15.
... prove to be the spearhead of a ...   12&12 p.156, Tradition Six
Why, we thought, our Society of Alcoholics Anonymous might prove to be the spearhead of a new spiritual advance!

16.
... prove to be well-intentioned unconscious rationalizations.   12&12 p.103, Step Eleven
They prove to be well-intentioned unconscious rationalizations.


17.
... prove to the world I was important.   BB p.2, Bill's Story   Go to page 2 in the Big Book
I'd prove to the world I was important.


18.
... prove we could drink like other people.   BB p.30, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 30 in the Big Book
Therefore, it is not surprising that our drinking careers have been characterized by countless vain attempts to prove we could drink like other people.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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