From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... provocation and
unfair criticism.
BB p.146,
To Employers
The employer cannot play
favorites, but he can always defend a man from needless provocation and unfair criticism.
2.
... provocation, but
we invariably find that at ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
Sometimes they hurt us,
seemingly without
provocation, but we invariably find that at
some time in the past we have
made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.
3.
... provocation or
another, the aggrieved one would ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Then, under one provocation or another, the aggrieved one would unearth the old affair and angrily cast its ashes about.
4.
... provocation, publicly
take sides in any fight, ...
12&12 p.176,
Tradition Ten
As by some deep instinct,
we A.A.'s have known from the
very beginning that we must never, no matter what the provocation, publicly take sides in any fight, even a worthy one.
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