From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... sound achievement
rests upon it.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
2.
... sound, and
who is willing to sit ...
12&12 p.135,
Tradition Two
The elder statesman is
the one who sees the wisdom of the group's decision, who holds no resentment over his reduced status, whose judgment, fortified by
considerable experience, is sound, and
who is willing to sit quietly on the sidelines
patiently awaiting developments.
3.
... sound, but
he did not distinguish between ...
BB p.149,
To Employers
As to them, his policy is undoubtedly sound, but he
did not distinguish between such people and the alcoholic.
4.
... sound human
being experiences, at some time ...
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
Nearly every sound human being experiences, at
some time in life, a compelling desire to find a mate of the opposite sex with whom the fullest possible union can be made -- spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical.
5.
... sound ideal
for our future sex life.
BB p.69,
How It Works
6.
... sound like
the philosophy of the man ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
They sound like the philosophy of the man who,
having a headache, beats
himself on the head with a
hammer so that he can't feel
the ache.
7.
... sound minds
and bodies.
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
8.
... sound of
the preacher's voice as I ...
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
I could almost hear the
sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance
pledge I never signed; my grandfather's
good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the
preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness as he spoke
of these things just before he died; these recollections welled
up from the past.
9.
... sound public
relations policy.
12&12 p.183,
Tradition Eleven
10.
... sound reasoning
failed to hold us in ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
11.
... sound reasoning
there inevitably ran some insanely ...
BB p.37,
More About Alcoholism
But there was always the curious mental phenomenon that parallel with our sound reasoning there inevitably ran some insanely trivial excuse for taking the first drink.
12.
... sound too
good, does it?
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
Doesn't sound too good, does
it?
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