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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... 'pure alcoholics.'
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
2.
... pure and
respectable alcoholics!
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
Yes
sir, we'd
cater only to
pure and
respectable alcoholics!
3.
... pure and
simple.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
4.
... pure and
simple, that has enabled most ...
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
After all, hasn't it been
self-
interest,
pure and
simple, that has
enabled
most of us to
escape?
5.
... pure reason?
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
How much did these
feelings, these
loves, these
worships, have
to do with
pure reason?
6.
... pure reason,
it wouldn't be life.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
Were
nothing left but
pure reason, it wouldn't be
life.
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