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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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SOUND   occurs   12 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... sound achievement rests upon it.   12&12 p.100, Step Eleven
There's nothing the matter with constructive imagination; all sound achievement rests upon it.

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   Go to page 149 in the Big Book
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   Go to page 69 in the Big Book
In this way we tried to shape a sane and sound ideal for our future sex life.


6.
... sound like the philosophy of the man ...   BB p.23, There Is A Solution   Go to page 23 in the Big Book
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   Go to page 133 in the Big Book
Most of them give freely of themselves, that their fellows may enjoy sound minds and bodies.


8.
... sound of the preacher's voice as I ...   BB p.10, Bill's Story   Go to page 10 in the Big Book
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
To us, however, it represents far more than a sound public relations policy.


10.
... sound reasoning failed to hold us in ...   BB p.37, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 37 in the Big Book
Our sound reasoning failed to hold us in check.


11.
... sound reasoning there inevitably ran some insanely ...   BB p.37, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 37 in the Big Book
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?


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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