From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... sorts, and
many other items of heavy ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
The next three years I spent in Boston, Chicago, and Montreal in the employ of a
large manufacturing
concern, selling railway supplies, gas engines of all sorts, and many other items of heavy hardware.
2.
... sorts of
absurd actions and ideas.
BB p.87,
Into Action
3.
... sorts of
fixed ideas.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
In the realm of the material, men's minds were fettered by superstition, tradition, and all sorts of
fixed ideas.
4.
... sorts of
predicaments.
BB p.105,
To Wives
Our loyalty and the desire that our husbands hold up their heads and be like other men have begotten all sorts of predicaments.
5.
... sorts of
remarkable things followed.
BB p.63,
How It Works
6.
... sorts of
situations and problems with the ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
With the best of intentions, he tends to force his own will into all sorts of situations and problems
with the comfortable assurance that he is acting under God's specific direction.
7.
... sorts of
things alcoholics are not supposed ...
BB p.100,
Working With Others
8.
... sorts, often
staying up all night.
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
He entered a political
campaign, making speeches, frequenting
men's gathering places of all sorts, often staying up all night.
9.
... sorts wiped
out.
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.
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