From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
PROVOCATION occurs
4 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... 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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