From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... responsibility?
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
Did I try to cover up those feelings of inadequacy
by bluffing, cheating,
lying, or evading responsibility?
2.
... responsibility.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
It would be a good thing,
they believed, for the liquor trade to show a sense of public responsibility.
3.
... responsibility and
trust, we try to be ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
When by devoted service
to family, friends, business, or community
we attract widespread
affection and are sometimes singled out for posts of greater responsibility and trust, we try to be humbly grateful and exert ourselves the more in a spirit of love and service.
4.
... responsibility and
ultimate authority for A.A. world ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
I. Final responsibility and
ultimate authority
for A.A. world services should always reside in the collective
conscience of our whole
Fellowship.
5.
... responsibility, every
alcoholic would shrug and say, ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
Relieved of responsibility, every alcoholic would shrug and
say, "Oh, the Foundation is wealthy --
why should I bother?"
6.
... responsibility fell
upon us to develop the ...
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
Therefore, a great responsibility fell upon us to develop the best possible public relations policy for Alcoholics Anonymous.
7.
... responsibility for
others.
BB p.120,
To Wives
8.
... responsibility for
the well-being of his help, ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
Nearly every modern employer feels a moral responsibility for the well-being of his help, and he tries to meet these responsibilities.
9.
... responsibility for
the well-being of others at ...
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
For the readiness to take
the full consequences
of our past acts, and to take responsibility for the well-being of others at the same time, is the very spirit of Step Nine.
10.
... responsibility in
most world service matters should ...
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
VI. The Conference recognizes that the chief
initiative and active
responsibility in most world
service matters should
be exercised by the trustee members of the Conference acting as the
General Service Board.
11.
... responsibility of
those people who financially support ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
12.
... responsibility of
those people who financially support ...
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
13.
... responsibility should
be matched by an equal ...
BB p.575,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
X. Every service responsibility should be matched
by an equal service authority, with the scope
of such authority well defined.
14.
... responsibility that
each must discharge.
BB p.574,
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)
IV. At all responsible levels, we ought to maintain a traditional
"Right of Participation," allowing a voting representation in reasonable proportion
to the responsibility that each must discharge.
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