From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... start.
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
In imagination the gleaming center was to go up several stories more, but three would do for a
start.
2.
... start.
BB p.58,
How It Works
With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough
from the very start.
3.
... start.
BB p.145,
To Employers
If he feels free to discuss his problems with
you, if he knows you understand and will not be
upset by anything he wishes to say, he will probably be off to a fast start.
4.
... start.
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Never once in my life have I had a headache,
which fact leads me to believe that I was an alcoholic almost from the
start.
5.
... start and
that your motive in going ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
But be sure you are on solid
spiritual ground before you start and that your
motive in going is thoroughly good.
6.
... start at
the top and come through ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
Some would start at the top and
come through to the bottom, becoming club members; others started in the club, pitched a binge, were hospitalized, then graduated to education
on the third floor.
7.
... start drinking
again.
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
The broker had gone to Akron on a business venture which had collapsed, leaving him greatly in fear that he might
start drinking again.
8.
... start drinking
again, and all would be ...
BB p.80,
Into Action
He saw that he had to place
the outcome in God's hands or he would soon start drinking again, and all would be lost anyhow.
9.
... start drinking
without developing the phenomenon of ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
All these, and many others,
have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving.
10.
... start easily
and will soon become eager.
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
When your mission is carefully explained,
and it is seen by the recipient of your confidence how helpful
he can really be, the conversation will start easily and will soon become eager.
11.
... start fresh
with him?
BB p.145,
To Employers
12.
... start from
that point.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
13.
... start is
made, then the great advantages ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
But if a willing start is
made, then the great advantages of doing this
will so quickly reveal themselves that
the pain will be lessened as one obstacle after another melts away.
14.
... start life
anew.
BB p.114,
To Wives
15.
... start like
this.
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
16.
... start of
a new millennium.
BB xxiii,
Foreword to Fourth Edition
This fourth edition of
"Alcoholics Anonymous" came off press in November 2001, at the start of a new millennium.
17.
... start of
a third at Cleveland.
BB xvii,
Foreword to Second Edition
A second small group promptly took shape at New York, to be followed in 1937 with the
start of a third at Cleveland.
18.
... start off
as a moderate drinker; he ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
He may start off as a moderate drinker; he may
or may not become a continuous hard drinker; but at some stage of
his drinking career he
begins to lose all control of his liquor consumption, once he starts to drink.
19.
... start on
A.A.'s program has been made.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
Of course the sponsor points out that our friend's life is still unmanageable even though he is sober, that after all, only a
bare start on A.A.'s program has been made.
20.
... start on
the new basis, but just ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
Perhaps your husband will make a fair start on the new basis, but just as things are going beautifully he dismays you by coming home drunk.
21.
... start out
as an evangelist or reformer.
BB p.89,
Working With Others
22.
... start out
by forgiving them, one and ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
If we are now about to ask forgiveness for ourselves, why shouldn't we
start out by forgiving them, one and all?
23.
... start their
journey, that all will not ...
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
24.
... start, this
was all we needed to ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with
God as we understood Him.
25.
... start to
withdraw again just because your ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
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