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1.
... sober.
BB
Bill's Story, p.9
He was sober.
2.
... sober.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.36
I had
eaten there
many times during the
months I was
sober.
3.
... sober.
BB
Into Action, p.82
Sometimes we
hear an
alcoholic say that the only
thing he
needs to do is to
keep sober.
4.
... sober.
12&12
Contents (Step Five), p.6
5.
... sober?
12&12
Step Four, p.45
If we were
pretty nice people all
along,
except for our
drinking, what
need is there for a
moral inventory now that we are
sober?
6.
... sober.
12&12
Step Five, pp.56-57
Most of us would
declare that
without a
fearless admission of our
defects to
another human being we could not
stay sober.
7.
... sober.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.143
8.
... sober A.A.
member has been granted a ...
12&12
Step Six, p.64
9.
... sober and
able to be of this ...
BB
The Family Afterward, p.127
They should be
thankful he is
sober and
able to be of this
world once more.
10.
... sober and
happy in our A.A. work.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.112
We are
sober and
happy in our
A.A. work.
11.
... sober and
help other alcoholics.
BB
Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiv
12.
... sober and
help other alcoholics to achieve ...
Grapevine
Preamble
13.
... sober and
in good spirits.
BB
To Wives, pp.115-116
Discuss this with him when he is
sober and in
good spirits.
14.
... sober and
keep emotional balance under all ...
12&12
Contents (Step Ten), p.8
15.
... sober and
to stay sober, you don't ...
12&12
Step Two, p.26
Second, to
get sober and to
stay sober, you don't have to
swallow
all of
Step Two right now.
16.
... sober, and
winning back the esteem of ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.92
17.
... sober at
all.
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
For
without some
degree of
humility,
no alcoholic can
stay sober at all.
18.
... sober at
all; others will relapse periodically ...
12&12
Step Five, p.56
19.
... sober at
once and remained that way; ...
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
20.
... sober breath.
BB
Bill's Story, p.4
21.
... sober but
a few months, he saw ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.154
22.
... sober, considerate,
and helpful, regardless of what ...
BB
Working With Others, p.99
23.
... sober day
by day.
BB
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
24.
... sober, does
he not work hard and ...
BB
To Employers, p.139
When
sober, does he not
work hard and have a
knack of
getting things done?
25.
... sober during
the day, at least up ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
26.
... sober enough
to earn money, I would ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, pp.175-176
Not
being a
man of
means, I
knew that if I did not
stay sober enough to
earn money, I would
run out of
liquor.
27.
... sober even
through the day, though I ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
28.
... sober fact
that it does not work ...
12&12
Tradition Eight, p.166
We do not
decry professionalism in
other fields, but we
accept the
sober fact that it does not
work for us.
29.
... sober, father
usually obeyed.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.131
30.
... sober for
a long stretch, we could ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.33
Most of us have
believed that if we
remained sober for a
long stretch, we could
thereafter drink normally.
31.
... sober for
a year or more, becoming ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
32.
... sober, for
there will be no home ...
BB
Into Action, p.82
Certainly he
must keep sober, for there
will be
no home if he doesn't.
33.
... sober for
years, often pay dearly for ...
12&12
Step Five, p.56
34.
... sober himself.
BB
Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
35.
... sober, it
can be understood why we ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.160
36.
... sober, keep
in emotional balance, and live ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.88
37.
... sober Monday
till after the dinner, and ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
38.
... sober --
month after month.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.144
39.
... sober nowadays,
don't we often try to ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.100
And
though sober nowadays, don't we
often try to do
much the
same thing?
40.
... sober only
by the grace of God ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.92
As an
insurance against
"
big-
shot-
ism" we can
often check ourselves by
remembering that we are
today sober only by the
grace of
God and that
any success we may be having is
far more His
success than
ours.
41.
... sober, or
even alive, unless he passes ...
12&12
Tradition Two, pp.132-133
Alone now, he
reflects that he may not be
able to
stay sober, or
even alive,
unless he
passes on to
other alcoholics what was so
freely given him.
42.
... sober --
paid our own way.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.160
They
figured that it was
high
time we
now --
sober --
paid our
own way.
43.
... sober six
months now?
BB
A Vision For You, p.154
After all, had he not been
sober six months now?
44.
... sober, some
others had.
12&12
Tradition Two, p.137
45.
... sober, that
after all, only a bare ...
12&12
Step Three, p.39
46.
... sober, that
motive became secondary.
BB
A Vision For You, p.159
47.
... sober the
rest of his life.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.40
He was
positive that this
humiliating experience,
plus the
knowledge he had
acquired,
would
keep him
sober the
rest of his
life.
48.
... sober, though
he's been in here eight ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.156
But he's a
grand chap when he's
sober,
though he's been in
here eight times in the
last six months.
49.
... sober; unless
I accept life completely on ...
BB
Acceptance, p.417
50.
... sober up
drunks and hand them currency ...
12&12
Tradition Four, p.147
51.
... sober, you
don't have to swallow all ...
12&12
Step Two, p.26
Second, to
get sober and to
stay sober, you don't have to
swallow
all of
Step Two right now.
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