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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... satisfy our basic natural desires is the ...   12&12 p.71, Step Seven
Nor do we enter into debate with the many who still so passionately cling to the belief that to satisfy our basic natural desires is the main object of life.


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... satisfy us to be told that we ...   BB xxvi(xxiv), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
It did not satisfy us to be told that we could not control our drinking just because we were maladjusted to life, that we were in full flight from reality, or were outright mental defectives.


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