RECOGNIZE in Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions

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RECOGNIZE occurs 12 times [2 in BB ... 10 in 12&12] Definition in Merriam-Webster Online

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... recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to have been a ... BB Appendix IV, The Lasker Award, p.571

"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with this condition is being blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind."

... recognize at once that A.A. has an ... 12&12 Tradition One, p.130

They see liberty verging on license, yet they recognize at once that A.A. has an irresistible strength of purpose and action.

... recognize is our total inability to form ... 12&12 Step Four, p.53

The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being.

... recognize it as a necessary aid to ... 12&12 Step Seven, p.74

We may still have no very high opinion of humility as a desirable personal virtue, but we do recognize it as a necessary aid to our survival.

... recognize my truly exceptional abilities? 12&12 Step Four, p.51

Or by griping that others failed to recognize my truly exceptional abilities?

... recognize now is that we exult in ... 12&12 Step Six, p.66

What we must recognize now is that we exult in some of our defects.

... recognize that alcoholics can't be dictated to ... 12&12 Tradition Nine, p.174

We recognize that alcoholics can't be dictated to -- individually or collectively.

... recognize that this trait had been an ... 12&12 Step Two, p.30

After we came to A.A., we had to recognize that this trait had been an ego-feeding proposition.

... recognize that we did act or think ... 12&12 Step Ten, p.94

Here we need only recognize that we did act or think badly, try to visualize how we might have done better, and resolve with God's help to carry these lessons over into tomorrow, making, of course, any amends still neglected.

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... recognize the fact that A.A. had to ... 12&12 Tradition Seven, p.161

Despite these misgivings, we had to recognize the fact that A.A. had to function.

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... recognize their alcoholism. 12&12 Step One, p.23

Alcoholics who still had their health, their families, their jobs, and even two cars in the garage, began to recognize their alcoholism.

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View APPENDIX III, The Medical View on A.A.

... recognize them." BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570

You would hardly recognize them."

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