From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SOLVE occurs
14 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... solve.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
These
allergic types can
never safely use
alcohol in any
form at all;
and once having
formed the
habit and
found they cannot
break it, once having
lost their
self-
confidence, their
reliance upon things
human, their
problems pile up on them and
become astonishingly difficult to
solve.
2.
... solve all
my problems.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
"Quite as
important was the
discovery that
spiritual principles
would
solve all my
problems.
3.
... solve his
alcohol problem.
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
He
shouts that if his
partner would
treat him
better, and his
wife would
leave him alone, he'd soon
solve
his
alcohol problem.
4.
... solve his
problem.
BB p.144,
To Employers
To
return to the
subject
matter of this book: It
contains full suggestions by which the
employee may
solve his
problem.
5.
... solve our
problems.
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
6.
... solve the
age-old riddle of alcoholism, He ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
If
God can
solve the
age-
old riddle of
alcoholism, He
can
solve your
problems
too.
7.
... solve the
fear problem, or any other.
BB p.68,
How It Works
Some of us once had
great self-
confidence, but it
didn't
fully solve the
fear problem, or any other.
8.
... solve the
problem by the method of ...
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
Many a
man like you has
begun
to
solve the
problem by the
method of
substitution.
9.
... solve their
common problem and help others ...
Grapevine,
Preamble
Alcoholics Anonymous is a
fellowship of
men and
women who
share their
experience,
strength
and
hope with each other that they may
solve their
common problem and
help others to
recover from
alcoholism.
10.
... solve their
common problems and to help ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
11.
... solve their
problems.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
Most
alcoholics have to be
pretty badly mangled before they really
commence to
solve their
problems.
12.
... solve their
problems by a simple reliance ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
When we saw others
solve their
problems by a
simple reliance upon the
Spirit of
the
Universe, we had to
stop doubting the
power of
God.
13.
... solve your
problem.
BB p.45,
We Agnostics
Its main object is to
enable you to
find a
Power greater than
yourself which will
solve
your
problem.
14.
... solve your
problems too.
BB p.116,
To Wives
If
God can
solve the
age-
old riddle of
alcoholism, He
can
solve your
problems
too.
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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The A.A. Preamble, copyright ©
The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.
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