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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... small.
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
2.
... small amount
of money.
BB p.79,
Into Action
He did, and also
sent a
small
amount of
money.
3.
... small beer.
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
4.
... small capital.
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
I had had some
success at
speculation, so we had a
little money, but we once
worked on a
farm for a
month to
avoid drawing on our
small capital.
5.
... small comprehension.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
6.
... small deal
would net a few hundred ...
BB p.5,
Bill's Story
Sometimes a
small deal would
net a few
hundred dollars, and I would
pay my
bills at the
bars and
delicatessens.
7.
... small, dealt
with low-bottom cases only.
12&12 p.23,
Step One
That is why the
first edition of the book "
Alcoholics Anonymous,"
published when our
membership was
small,
dealt with
low-
bottom cases only.
8.
... small degree
the assurance of the believer, ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
He cannot
attain in even a
small degree the
assurance of the
believer, the
agnostic,
or the
atheist.
9.
... small group
may elect its secretary, the ...
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Nine (Long)
10.
... small group
may elect its secretary, the ...
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
11.
... small group
promptly took shape at New ...
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
12.
... small interest
in the children and may ...
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
He may take
small interest
in the
children and may
show irritation when
reproved for his
delinquencies.
13.
... small offices
had to be set up, ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
14.
... small part,
he has made himself ready ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
What he has
received is a
free gift, and
yet usually, at
least in some
small part, he has made
himself
ready to
receive
it.
15.
... small part
of a great whole.
12&12 p.189,
Tradition One (Long)
One -- Each
member of
Alcoholics Anonymous
is but a
small part of a
great whole.
16.
... small part
of a great whole.
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
17.
... small part
of a great whole; that ...
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
18.
... small part
of the picture.
BB p.143,
To Employers
If your
man accepts your
offer, it should be
pointed
out that
physical treatment is but a
small part of the
picture.
19.
... small segment
of it we discover when ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
20.
... small sums
of money which we could ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
These
simple services
would
require small sums of
money which we could and
would
pay ourselves.
21.
... small tots
that father was sick, which ...
BB p.106,
To Wives
We have told
small tots that
father was
sick, which was
much
nearer the
truth than
we
realized.
22.
... small, we
never knew we had.
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Possibly, too, we were still
handicapped by many
liabilities,
great and
small, we
never knew we had.
23.
Small wonder
many in the medical profession ...
BB p.73,
Into Action
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