From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... scratched.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
If we keep on the way we are going there is little doubt that much good will result, but the surface of
the problem would hardly
be scratched.
2.
... scratched a
limitless lode which will pay ...
BB p.129,
The Family Afterward
He may not see at once that he
has barely scratched a limitless lode which will pay dividends only if he mines
it for the rest of his life
and insists on giving away the entire product.
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