From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... rule?
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
2.
... rule.
BB p.118,
To Wives
3.
... rule.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
Now, this house will hardly accommodate its weekly visitors, for they
number sixty or eighty as a rule.
4.
... rule.
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Among our rapidly growing membership of thousands of alcoholics such transformations, though frequent, are by no means the rule.
5.
... Rule #62."
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
6.
... rule can
be given.
BB p.90,
Working With Others
7.
... rule can
be laid down.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
8.
... rule is
not to avoid a place ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
So our rule is not to avoid a
place where there is drinking, if we have a legitimate reason for being there.
9.
... rule is
we must be hard on ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
10.
... rule of
any sort, we have often ...
BB p.81,
Into Action
Though there may be justifiable exceptions, and though we
wish to lay down no rule
of any sort, we have often found this the best course to take.
11.
... rule of
iron or by a constant ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
What happens when we try to
dominate the whole family, either by a rule of iron or by a constant outpouring of
minute directions for
just how their lives should
be lived from hour to hour?
12.
... rule, one
of two directions.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
13.
... rule, the
average newcomer wanted his family ...
12&12 p.185,
Tradition Twelve
14.
... rule their
fellows.
12&12 p.43,
Step Four
We have also seen men and women who go power-mad, who devote themselves to attempting to rule their fellows.
15.
... rule, therefore
nonalcoholic.
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic.
16.
... rule those
about us in order to ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
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