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... quite a
different matter.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
2.
... quite a
lot superior?
12&12 p.66,
Step Six
Who, for example, doesn't like to feel just a little superior to the next fellow, or even quite a lot superior?
3.
Quite a
while later, Ed got a ...
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
4.
... quite alike,
so each of us, when ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Human beings are never quite alike, so each of us, when making an inventory, will need to determine what his individual character
defects are.
5.
... quite annoyed
if there is talk about ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
6.
... quite another
problem.
12&12 p.46,
Step Four
7.
... quite another
view of this absolute humiliation.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
8.
... quite as
abnormal as his mind.
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
In this statement he confirms what we who have suffered alcoholic torture must believe -- that the body of
the alcoholic is quite as
abnormal as his mind.
9.
... quite as
careful when we begin to ...
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
We must be quite as careful when we begin to achieve some measure of importance and material
success.
10.
... quite as
damaging.
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
11.
... quite as
important -- other people.
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
12.
"Quite as
important was the discovery that ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
13.
... quite as
much from our voluntary reaching ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
It could come quite as much from our voluntary reaching for it as it could from unremitting suffering.
14.
... quite as
much to women.
BB p.104,
To Wives
15.
... quite as
unhealthy as the demands which ...
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection,
and love can only invite domination or revulsion in the protectors themselves
-- two emotions quite as unhealthy as the demands which evoked them.
16.
... quite belong.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered
the feeling that we didn't quite belong.
17.
Quite characteristically,
we had gone all out ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
18.
... quite far
off the beam.
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
19.
... quite forgotten,
damaging emotional conflicts persist below ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
Very deep, sometimes quite forgotten, damaging emotional conflicts persist below the level of consciousness.
20.
... quite hopeful
of a situation like this.
BB p.110,
To Wives
21.
... quite hopeless,
but that is not so.
BB p.113,
To Wives
You would suppose that men
in the fourth classification would be quite hopeless, but that is not
so.
22.
... quite impossible.
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
And these were fears which would make a serene and useful existence, at any financial level, quite impossible.
23.
... quite in
earnest.
12&12 p.144,
Tradition Three
24.
... quite in
sympathy with the approach we ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
25.
... quite incapable.
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
He finds himself in possession of a degree of
honesty, tolerance, unselfishness, peace of
mind, and love of which he had
thought himself quite incapable.
26.
... quite indifferent
to the many so long ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
Most of us must admit that we
have loved but a few; that we
have been quite indifferent to the many so
long as none of them gave us trouble; and as for
the remainder -- well, we
have really disliked or
hated them.
27.
... quite noncontroversial,
of course.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
Beginning on the ground
floor there would be a club;
in the second story they
would sober up drunks and hand them currency for their back debts; the third deck would house an educational project --
quite noncontroversial, of course.
28.
... quite objectionable.
12&12 p.96,
Step Eleven
To certain newcomers
and to those one-time agnostics who still cling to the A.A. group as their higher power, claims for the power of prayer may, despite all the
logic and experience in
proof of it, still be unconvincing or quite objectionable.
29.
Quite often
friends of the newcomer are ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
30.
Quite often,
however, the thoughts that seem ...
12&12 p.103,
Step Eleven
31.
... quite optional
so long as we expressed ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
The wording was, of course, quite optional so long as we expressed the idea, voicing it without reservation.
32.
... quite plainly,
as I was piously trying ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
33.
... quite quickly.
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Though we may at first be
startled to realize
that God knows all about us,
we are apt to get used to that quite quickly.
34.
... quite rational
and well-balanced with respect to ...
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
35.
... quite safe.
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
36.
... quite shaky.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
37.
... quite similar
social, ethnic, and economic backgrounds.
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
When the phrase "We are people who normally would
not mix" (page 17 of this book) was written in 1939, it referred to a Fellowship composed largely of men (and a few women) with quite similar social, ethnic, and economic backgrounds.
38.
... quite step
ashore.
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
39.
... quite sure
of many things which, so ...
BB p.139,
To Employers
Drinking occasionally, and understanding your own reactions, it is possible for you to become
quite sure of many things which, so far as the alcoholic is concerned, are not always
so.
40.
... quite sure
to drink.
BB p.70,
How It Works
41.
... quite unable
to see that our unreasonable ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
42.
... quite unconscious
of this, the result always ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
43.
... quite unfit
for work.
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Occasionally, I would yield to the morning craving, but if I did, it would be only a few hours before I would be quite unfit for work.
44.
... quite virtuous.
BB p.61,
How It Works
45.
... quite willing
to reveal the very worst, ...
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
While we may be quite willing to reveal the very worst, we must be sure to remember that we cannot buy
our own peace of mind at the expense of others.
46.
... quite wrong.
BB p.66,
How It Works
47.
... quite young,
a number of eminent psychologists ...
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
When A.A. was quite young, a number of eminent psychologists
and doctors made an exhaustive study of a good-sized group of so-called problem drinkers.
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