From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... somewhere."
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
When told that our Society
has no president having authority to govern it, no treasurer who can compel the payment of any dues, no
board of directors who
can cast an erring member into outer darkness, when indeed no A.A. can give another a directive and enforce obedience, our friends gasp and exclaim, "This simply can't be. There must be
an angle somewhere."
2.
... somewhere.
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
3.
... somewhere; have
seen the most impossible domestic ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
I have seen hundreds of families set their feet in the path that really goes somewhere; have seen the most impossible domestic situations righted; feuds and bitterness of
all sorts wiped out.
4.
... somewhere in
the world, recovery begins when ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing experience, strength,
and hope.
5.
... somewhere, or
would stumble along to a ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
Everyone became resigned to the certainty that I would have to be shut up somewhere, or would stumble along to a miserable end.
6.
... somewhere, that
life is not a dead ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
He has been set on a path which
tells him he is really going somewhere, that life is not a dead end, not something to be endured or mastered.
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