From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... sounds as
though the alcoholics in A.A. ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Maybe this sounds as though the alcoholics in
A.A. had suddenly gone peaceable, and become one great big happy family.
2.
... sounds comical
now.
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
3.
... sounds good
in the speaking, but it ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
This brave philosophy,
wherein each man plays God, sounds good in the speaking, but it
still has to meet the acid test: how well does it actually work?
4.
... sounds like
a hard question, but practically ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
5.
... sounds mysterious
and remote, something like Einstein's ...
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
Maybe this all sounds mysterious and remote, something like Einstein's theory of relativity or a proposition in nuclear
physics.
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