From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
REFUSE occurs
6 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... refuse air,
food, or sunshine.
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
Those of us who have
come to make
regular use of
prayer would
no more do without it than we would
refuse air,
food, or
sunshine.
2.
... refuse air,
light, or food, the body ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
When we
refuse air,
light, or
food, the
body suffers.
3.
... refuse none
who wish to recover.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
Hence we may
refuse none who
wish to
recover.
4.
... refuse none
who wish to recover.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Hence we may
refuse none who
wish to
recover.
5.
... refuse to
be solved by all the ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
By now, though, the
chances are that he has
become convinced that he
has more
problems than
alcohol, and that some of these
refuse to be
solved by all the
sheer personal determination and
courage he can
muster.
6.
... refuse to
talk.
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
If you
draw this
fallacious reasoning
to the
attention of an
alcoholic, he will
laugh it
off, or
become irritated and
refuse to
talk.
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