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1.
... right. ..."   12&12 p.23, Step One
Following every spree, he would say to himself, "Maybe those A.A.'s were right. ..."

2.
... right.   12&12 p.46, Step Four
We firmly believe that if only they'd treat us better, we'd be all right.

3.
... right.   12&12 p.49, Step Four
All these failings generate fear, a soul-sickness in its own right.

4.
... right.   12&12 p.93, Step Ten
It's a poor day indeed when we haven't done something right.

5.
... right.   12&12 p.108, Step Twelve
We had to begin to make our peace, and so we listed the people we had harmed and became willing to set things right.

6.
... right.(*)   12&12 p.118, Step Twelve
Nevertheless, under the influence of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, these situations are often set right.(*)


7.
... right.   BB p.3, Bill's Story   Go to page 3 in the Big Book
Perhaps they were right.


8.
... right.   BB p.9, Bill's Story   Go to page 9 in the Big Book
Yes, the old boy was on fire all right.


9.
... right.   BB p.61, How It Works   Go to page 61 in the Big Book
He begins to think life doesn't treat him right.


10.
... right.   BB p.80, Into Action   Go to page 80 in the Big Book
He felt that he had done a wrong he could not possibly make right.


11.
... right.   BB p.83, Into Action   Go to page 83 in the Big Book
There may be some wrongs we can never fully right.


12.
... right.   BB p.87, Into Action   Go to page 87 in the Big Book
Be quick to see where religious people are right.

13.
... right a serious wrong.   12&12 p.85, Step Nine
Or we may just procrastinate, telling ourselves the time is not yet, when in reality we have already passed up many a fine chance to right a serious wrong.


14.
... right-about-face and drink like a gentleman, our ...   BB p.31, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 31 in the Big Book
If anyone who is showing inability to control his drinking can do the right-about-face and drink like a gentleman, our hats are off to him.

15.
... right action is the key to good ...   12&12 p.125, Step Twelve
Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step.


16.
... right after all.   BB p.11, Bill's Story   Go to page 11 in the Big Book
It began to look as though religious people were right after all.


17.
... right after all."   BB p.159, A Vision For You   Go to page 159 in the Big Book
I guess the old folks were right after all."


18.
... right all such matters to the utmost ...   BB p.13, Bill's Story   Go to page 13 in the Big Book
I was to right all such matters to the utmost of my ability.


19.
... right, and great events will come to ...   BB p.164, A Vision For You   Go to page 164 in the Big Book
See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others.

20.
... right and I was wrong; the voice ...   12&12 p.138, Tradition Two
The group was right and I was wrong; the voice on the subway was not the voice of God.

21.
... right, and surely God-given.   12&12 p.42, Step Four
So these desires -- for the sex relation, for material and emotional security, and for companionship -- are perfectly necessary and right, and surely God-given.

22.
... right, and were quick to say that ...   12&12 p.97, Step Eleven
We liked A.A. all right, and were quick to say that it had done miracles.

23.
... right and what has been wrong, he ...   12&12 p.50, Step Four
Using his best judgment of what has been right and what has been wrong, he might make a rough survey of his conduct with respect to his primary instincts for sex, security, and society.

24.
... right and you are wrong."   12&12 p.37, Step Three
Each fragment says to the others, "We are right and you are wrong."

25.
... right answer for that one.   12&12 p.153, Tradition Five
"Thank heaven I came up with the right answer for that one.


26.
... right answer will come, if we want ...   BB p.69, How It Works   Go to page 69 in the Big Book
The right answer will come, if we want it.


27.
... right answers come after we have tried ...   BB p.86, Into Action   Go to page 86 in the Big Book
We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while.


28.
... right any new mistakes as we go ...   BB p.84, Into Action   Go to page 84 in the Big Book
This thought brings us to Step Ten, which suggests we continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any new mistakes as we go along.

29.
... right around A.A.   12&12 p.140, Tradition Three
We built a fine-mesh fence right around A.A.

30.
... right attitude in which to proceed, we ...   12&12 p.83, Step Nine
After we have made the list of people we have harmed, have reflected carefully upon each instance, and have tried to possess ourselves of the right attitude in which to proceed, we will see that the making of direct amends divides those we should approach into several classes.


31.
... right away.   BB p.120, To Wives   Go to page 120 in the Big Book
If not, it had better be found out right away.


32.
... right but, by the description, none too ...   BB p.156, A Vision For You   Go to page 156 in the Big Book
Here was a prospect all right but, by the description, none too promising.


33.
... right, but hung on to some of ...   BB p.73, Into Action   Go to page 73 in the Big Book
They took inventory all right, but hung on to some of the worst items in stock.


34.
... right, but I don't see what good ...   BB p.157, A Vision For You   Go to page 157 in the Big Book
You fellows know your stuff all right, but I don't see what good it'll do.

35.
... right, but unlike a beehive, it was ...   12&12 p.149, Tradition Four
It was a beehive of activity, all right, but unlike a beehive, it was confusion compounded.

36.
... right -- but where do we go from ...   12&12 p.25, Step Two
Yes, you've got us over the barrel, all right -- but where do we go from here?"

37.
Right contacts with the world outside have ...   12&12 p.168, Tradition Eight
Right contacts with the world outside have to be maintained.

38.
... right dependence upon God, we were still ...   12&12 p.121, Step Twelve
When a job still looked like a mere means of getting money rather than an opportunity for service, when the acquisition of money for financial independence looked more important than a right dependence upon God, we were still the victims of unreasonable fears.


39.
... right down to fundamentals.   BB p.120, To Wives   Go to page 120 in the Big Book
Then you and your husband can get right down to fundamentals.


40.
... right down to this: No man should ...   BB p.148, To Employers   Go to page 148 in the Big Book
It boils right down to this: No man should be fired just because he is alcoholic.

41.
... right for saints, but it certainly didn't ...   12&12 p.74, Step Seven
Character-building through suffering might be all right for saints, but it certainly didn't appeal to us.

42.
... right, grown-up attitudes, very happy results do ...   12&12 p.120, Step Twelve
With clear understanding and right, grown-up attitudes, very happy results do follow.


43.
... right had he to involve those dependent ...   BB p.80, Into Action   Go to page 80 in the Big Book
What right had he to involve those dependent upon him?


44.
... right," he said.   BB p.158, A Vision For You   Go to page 158 in the Big Book
"Maybe you're right," he said.


45.
... right here and now.   BB p.16, Bill's Story   Go to page 16 in the Big Book
We have it with us right here and now.

46.
... right here in this meeting that sometimes ...   12&12 p.138, Tradition Two
'Bill, haven't you often said right here in this meeting that sometimes the good is the enemy of the best?

47.
Right here we need to fetch ourselves ...   12&12 p.78, Step Eight
Right here we need to fetch ourselves up sharply.


48.
... right his past wrongs, why all this ...   BB p.128, The Family Afterward   Go to page 128 in the Big Book
If he means to right his past wrongs, why all this concern for everyone in the world but his family?


49.
... right ideal, for guidance in each questionable ...   BB p.70, How It Works   Go to page 70 in the Big Book
To sum up about sex: We earnestly pray for the right ideal, for guidance in each questionable situation, for sanity, and for the strength to do the right thing.

50.
... "right kind."   12&12 p.46, Step Four
Therefore we think our indignation is justified and reasonable -- that our resentments are the "right kind."


51.
... right kind.   BB p.69, How It Works   Go to page 69 in the Big Book
They think we do not have enough of it, or that it isn't the right kind.


52.
... right kind of man, the kind who ...   BB p.149, To Employers   Go to page 149 in the Big Book
The right kind of man, the kind who recovers, will not want this sort of thing.

53.
... right living for which no amount of ...   12&12 p.124, Step Twelve
Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.


54.
... right minds.   BB p.57, We Agnostics   Go to page 57 in the Big Book
Even so has God restored us all to our right minds.

55.
... right now.   12&12 p.26, Step Two
Second, to get sober and to stay sober, you don't have to swallow all of Step Two right now.

56.
... right objectives.   12&12 p.100, Step Eleven
Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total inability to point imagination toward the right objectives.


57.
... "Right of Appeal" ought to prevail, so ...   BB p.574, Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)   Display entire Appendix VII
V. Throughout our structure, a traditional "Right of Appeal" ought to prevail, so that minority opinion will be heard and personal grievances receive careful consideration.


58.
... "Right of Decision."   BB p.574, Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)   Display entire Appendix VII
III. To insure effective leadership, we should endow each element of A.A. -- the Conference, the General Service Board and its service corporations, staffs, committees, and executives -- with a traditional "Right of Decision."


59.
... "Right of Participation," allowing a voting representation ...   BB p.574, Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form)   Display entire Appendix VII
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.

60.
... right or need to discourage A.A.'s who ...   12&12 p.171, Tradition Eight
We see that we have no right or need to discourage A.A.'s who wish to work as individuals in these wider fields.

61.
... right out of me."   12&12 p.63, Step Six
It was lifted right out of me."

62.
... right out of the Bible -- a voice ...   12&12 p.137, Tradition Two
In fact, it came right out of the Bible -- a voice kept saying to me, 'The laborer is worthy of his hire.'


63.
... right person.   BB p.74, Into Action   Go to page 74 in the Big Book
We say this because we are very anxious that we talk to the right person.

64.
... right principles and attitudes, and right action ...   12&12 p.125, Step Twelve
Understanding is the key to right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living; therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.'s Twelfth Step.

65.
... right relations with people who understand us; ...   12&12 p.117, Step Twelve
Through it we begin to learn right relations with people who understand us; we don't have to be alone any more.

66.
... right size.   12&12 p.30, Step Two
They helped us to get down to our right size.

67.
... right size.   12&12 p.122, Step Twelve
He's willing to stay right size.


68.
... right the wrong.   BB p.77, Into Action   Go to page 77 in the Big Book
But our man is sure to be impressed with a sincere desire to set right the wrong.


69.
... right them if we could.   BB p.83, Into Action   Go to page 83 in the Big Book
We don't worry about them if we can honestly say to ourselves that we would right them if we could.


70.
... right then.   BB p.11, Bill's Story   Go to page 11 in the Big Book
My ideas about miracles were drastically revised right then.


71.
... right there.   BB p.10, Bill's Story   Go to page 10 in the Big Book
With ministers, and the world's religions, I parted right there.


72.
... right there our perverse streak comes to ...   BB p.49, We Agnostics   Go to page 49 in the Big Book
When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is suggested that underneath the material world and life as we see it, there is an All Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right there our perverse streak comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince ourselves it isn't so.

73.
Right there, Step Two gently and very ...   12&12 p.27, Step Two
Right there, Step Two gently and very gradually began to infiltrate my life.

74.
... right thing.   12&12 p.74, Step Seven
At this stage of our progress we are under heavy pressure and coercion to do the right thing.


75.
... right thing.   BB p.70, How It Works   Go to page 70 in the Big Book
To sum up about sex: We earnestly pray for the right ideal, for guidance in each questionable situation, for sanity, and for the strength to do the right thing.


76.
... right thing if you assume them.   BB p.97, Working With Others   Go to page 97 in the Big Book
Never avoid these responsibilities, but be sure you are doing the right thing if you assume them.


77.
... right thing, no matter what the personal ...   BB p.79, Into Action   Go to page 79 in the Big Book
Reminding ourselves that we have decided to go to any lengths to find a spiritual experience, we ask that we be given strength and direction to do the right thing, no matter what the personal consequences may be.

78.
... right thing when it becomes clear, cost ...   12&12 p.86, Step Nine
Do we lay the matter before our sponsor or spiritual adviser, earnestly asking God's help and guidance -- meanwhile resolving to do the right thing when it becomes clear, cost what it may?

79.
... right things of which we and others ...   12&12 p.102, Step Eleven
Having opened our channel as best we can, we try to ask for those right things of which we and others are in the greatest need.


80.
... right thought or action.   BB p.87, Into Action   Go to page 87 in the Big Book
As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action.


81.
... right to be self-confident, that it would ...   BB p.40, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 40 in the Big Book
I felt I had every right to be self-confident, that it would be only a matter of exercising my will power and keeping on guard.

82.
... right to be wrong.   12&12 p.147, Tradition Four
Every group had the right to be wrong.

83.
... right to be wrong.   12&12 p.149, Tradition Four
Thus it was that under Tradition Four an A.A. group had exercised its right to be wrong.

84.
... right to decide all by ourselves just ...   12&12 p.37, Step Three
How persistently we claim the right to decide all by ourselves just what we shall think and just how we shall act.

85.
... right to explain his new way of ...   12&12 p.186, Tradition Twelve
As he gained confidence, he felt it right to explain his new way of life to his employer and business associates.


86.
... right to go further.   BB p.81, Into Action   Go to page 81 in the Big Book
More than that we cannot do; we have no right to go further.


87.
... right to involve another person.   BB p.81, Into Action   Go to page 81 in the Big Book
We feel we ought to say to her that we have no right to involve another person.


88.
... right to know where he is and ...   BB p.115, To Wives   Go to page 115 in the Big Book
Your desire to protect him should not cause you to lie to people when they have a right to know where he is and what he is doing.


89.
... right to let him ruin your life ...   BB p.108, To Wives   Go to page 108 in the Big Book
Is it right to let him ruin your life and the lives of your children?


90.
... right to save our own skin at ...   BB p.74, Into Action   Go to page 74 in the Big Book
We have no right to save our own skin at another person's expense.

91.
... right to take this job."   12&12 p.158, Tradition Six
"Nevertheless," we pointed out, "you still have a legal right to take this job."


92.
... right to tell him how he must ...   BB p.10, Bill's Story   Go to page 10 in the Big Book
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance pledge I never signed; my grandfather's good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness as he spoke of these things just before he died; these recollections welled up from the past.

93.
... right to think, talk, and act as ...   12&12 p.129, Tradition One
We believe there isn't a fellowship on earth which lavishes more devoted care upon its individual members; surely there is none which more jealously guards the individual's right to think, talk, and act as he wishes.

94.
... right track.   12&12 p.48, Step Four
Having found the shoes that fit, he ought to step into them and walk with new confidence that he is at last on the right track.


95.
... right track without becoming critical of them.   BB p.100, Working With Others   Go to page 100 in the Big Book
In this way you can set them on the right track without becoming critical of them.

96.
... right upon issues of our time.   12&12 p.177, Tradition Ten
Nor does it mean that the members of Alcoholics Anonymous, now restored as citizens of the world, are going to back away from their individual responsibilities to act as they see the right upon issues of our time.

97.
... right with ourselves and with the world ...   12&12 p.125, Step Twelve
For it is only by accepting and solving our problems that we can begin to get right with ourselves and with the world about us, and with Him who presides over us all.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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