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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... 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
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
All of us
spend much of our
spare time in the
sort of
effort which we are
going to
describe.
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
An
A.A. group, as such,
simply couldn't
handle this
sort of
project.
11.
... sort of
streamlining.
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
12.
... sort of
thing.
BB p.78,
Into Action
Most of us have done that sort of thing.
13.
... sort of
thing.
BB p.149,
To Employers
The
right kind of
man, the
kind who
recovers, will not
want this
sort of thing.
14.
... sort of
thing can be avoided.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
This
sort of thing can be
avoided.
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
Yes, we
reveled in that
sort of
thinking, didn't we?
17.
... sort of
thinking dominates an alcoholic who ...
BB p.35,
More About Alcoholism
18.
... sort of
thinking had to be abandoned.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
This
sort of
thinking had
to be
abandoned.
19.
... sort of
thinking is fully established in ...
BB p.24,
There Is A Solution
20.
... sort of
treatment or outside help.
BB p.569(571),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
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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