From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... sort --
and we have come to believe ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
An illness of this sort --
and we have come to believe
it an illness -- involves those about us in a
way no other human sickness can.
2.
... sort may
come up during business hours.
BB p.146,
To Employers
He may wish to do a lot for other alcoholics and something of the sort may come up during business hours.
3.
... sort must
be intolerably damaging.
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
This very form of faulty dependence has caused many a rebellious alcoholic
to conclude that dependence of any sort must be intolerably damaging.
4.
... sort of
bush-league pinch hitter, to be ...
12&12 p.75,
Step Seven
We began to get over the idea that the Higher Power was a sort of bush-league pinch hitter, to be called upon only in an emergency.
5.
... sort of
chap we would like our ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
We women carry with us a picture of the ideal man, the sort of chap we would like our husbands to be.
6.
... sort of
effort which we are going ...
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
7.
... sort of
faith?
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
What was that but a sort of faith?
8.
... sort of
fundamental inquiries that can disclose ...
12&12 p.52,
Step Four
These are the sort of fundamental inquiries
that can disclose the source of my discomfort
and indicate whether I
may be able to alter my own conduct and so adjust myself serenely to self-discipline.
9.
... sort of
life we try to build.
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
These fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour the
foundations of whatever sort of life we try to build.
10.
... sort of
project.
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
11.
... sort of
streamlining.
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
They wrote the Foundation(*), A.A.'s headquarters in New York, wanting to know about this sort of streamlining.
12.
... sort of
thing.
BB p.78,
Into Action
13.
... sort of
thing.
BB p.149,
To Employers
14.
... sort of
thing can be avoided.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
15.
... sort of
thing decreased the man's chance ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
16.
... sort of
thinking, didn't we?
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
17.
... sort of
thinking dominates an alcoholic who ...
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
What sort of thinking dominates an alcoholic
who repeats time after time the desperate experiment
of the first drink?
18.
... sort of
thinking had to be abandoned.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
19.
... sort of
thinking is fully established in ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
When this sort of thinking
is fully established
in an individual with alcoholic tendencies,
he has probably placed
himself beyond human aid, and unless locked up, may die or go permanently insane.
20.
... sort of
treatment or outside help.
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. Harry M. Tiebout, psychiatrist:
"As a psychiatrist, I have thought a great deal about the relationship of my specialty to A.A. and I have
come to the conclusion
that our particular function can very often lie in preparing the way for the patient to accept any sort of treatment or outside help.
21.
... sort out
those who could get well, ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
We'd gather up derelicts from skid rows, sort out those who could get well, and make it possible for the rest to earn their livelihood in a kind of quarantined confinement.
22.
... sort, the
God of the Atom, maybe, ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
No doubt the universe had a "first cause" of some sort, the God of the Atom, maybe, hot and cold by turns.
23.
... sort turn
out to be bogeymen, nothing ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
But the testimony of A.A.'s
who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out
to be bogeymen, nothing
else.
24.
... sort, we
have often found this the ...
BB p.81,
Into Action
Though there may be justifiable exceptions, and though we
wish to lay down no rule
of any sort, we have often found this the best course to take.
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