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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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PURSUE   occurs   3 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... pursue it into the gates of insanity ...   BB p.30, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 30 in the Big Book
Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death.


2.
... pursue the spiritual remedy for his malady ...   BB xvi, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
But when the broker gave him Dr. Silkworth's description of alcoholism and its hopelessness, the physician began to pursue the spiritual remedy for his malady with a willingness he had never before been able to muster.

3.
... pursue this melancholy activity, we may sink ...   12&12 p.45, Step Four
As we morbidly pursue this melancholy activity, we may sink to such a point of despair that nothing but oblivion looks possible as a solution.


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