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.
2.
... satisfy us
to be told that we ...
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The 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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