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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SQUARE occurs
6 times
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1.
... square.
BB p.148,
To Employers
He will be able to take a
position with such a
man which is
eminently fair and
square.
2.
... Square Garden,
and I don't see why ...
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
Some
day this
bunch of
ex-
drunks of yours will
fill Madison Square Garden, and I don't see why
you should
starve meanwhile.
3.
... square look
at some of these defects, ...
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
But when we have
taken a
square look at some of these
defects, have
discussed
them with another, and have
become willing to have them
removed, our
thinking
about
humility commences to have a
wider
meaning.
4.
... square mile
than any city in the ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
He had
lived there but a few
weeks when he
found that the
place
probably contained more
alcoholics per square mile than any
city in the
country.
5.
... square pegs
in round holes but can ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Service,
gladly rendered,
obligations
squarely met,
troubles well
accepted or
solved with
God's
help, the
knowledge that at
home or in the
world outside we are
partners in
a
common effort, the
well-
understood fact
that in
God's
sight all
human beings are
important, the
proof that
love freely given surely brings a
full return, the
certainty that we are no
longer isolated and alone
in
self-
constructed prisons, the
surety that we
need no
longer be
square pegs in
round holes but can
fit and
belong in
God's
scheme of things -- these
are the
permanent and
legitimate satisfactions of
right
living for which no
amount
of
pomp and
circumstance, no
heap of
material possessions, could
possibly be
substitutes.
6.
... square the
account in his lifetime.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
He can
scarcely square the
account in his
lifetime.
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