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... stay alive.
12&12
Step Six, p.64
He did not design man to destroy himself by alcohol, but He did give man instincts to help him to stay alive.
2.
... stay alive
himself.
12&12
Step One, p.24
No, the average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme,
doesn't care for this prospect -- unless he has to
do these things in order to
stay alive himself.
3.
... stay away,
whichever seems best.
BB
Working With Others, p.102
4.
... stay dry
anything like a year.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.34
5.
... stay home
and make up the deficiency.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.131
Instead of developing
new channels of activity for themselves,
mother and children demand that he stay home and make up the deficiency.
6.
... stay lazy.
12&12
Step Four, p.49
7.
... stay, let
him steer the conversation in ...
BB
Working With Others, p.95
8.
... stay married;
it is how to be ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.117
Our main problem is not how
we are to stay married; it is
how to be more happily married by eliminating
the severe emotional twists that have so often stemmed from alcoholism.
9.
... stay on
the water wagon?
BB
There Is A Solution, p.22
10.
... stay on
the water wagon even when ...
BB
To Wives, p.109
Two: Your husband is showing lack of control, for he is unable to
stay on the water wagon even when he wants to.
11.
... stay out
of this controversy.
BB
How It Works, p.69
12.
... stay over
fifteen minutes.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
Wishing to be polite, though I felt very badly, I said, "Let's make the call," and extracted from my wife a promise that we would not stay
over fifteen minutes.
13.
... stay poor.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.165
14.
... stay put,
if only people would do ...
BB
How It Works, pp.60-61
If his arrangements would only stay put, if only people would do as he wished,
the show would be great.
15.
... stay right
size.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.122
16.
... stay sober.
12&12
Contents (Step Five), p.6
17.
... stay sober.
12&12
Step Five, pp.56-57
Most of us would declare that without a fearless admission of our defects to
another human being we could not stay sober.
18.
... stay sober.
12&12
Tradition Three, p.143
19.
... stay sober
and help other alcoholics.
BB
Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiv
In any meeting, anywhere, A.A.'s share experience, strength, and hope with each other, in order to stay sober and help other alcoholics.
20.
... stay sober
and help other alcoholics to ...
Grapevine
Preamble
21.
... stay sober
and keep emotional balance under ...
12&12
Contents (Step Ten), p.8
22.
... stay sober
at all.
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
23.
... stay sober
at all; others will relapse ...
12&12
Step Five, p.56
Some people are unable to
stay sober at all; others will relapse periodically until they really clean house.
24.
... stay sober
during the day, at least ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
My phobia for sleeplessness demanded
that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.
25.
... stay sober
enough to earn money, I ...
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, pp.175-176
Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not
stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.
26.
... stay sober,
it can be understood why ...
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.160
When you add to this the habitual supposition
that people ought to give money to alcoholics trying to stay sober, it can be understood why we thought we deserved a pile of folding money.
27.
... stay sober,
keep in emotional balance, and ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.88
Then comes the acid test: can we stay sober, keep in emotional balance, and live to good purpose under all conditions?
28.
... stay sober,
or even alive, unless he ...
12&12
Tradition Two, pp.132-133
Alone now, he reflects that he may not be able to stay sober, or even alive, unless he passes on to other alcoholics what was so freely given him.
29.
... stay sober;
unless I accept life completely ...
BB
Acceptance, p.417
Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay
sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy.
30.
... stay sober,
you don't have to swallow ...
12&12
Step Two, p.26
31.
... stay whole
and so survive?"
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous
are, we A.A.'s believe, the best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can
A.A. best stay whole and so survive?"
32.
... stay whole,
or A.A. dies.
12&12
Tradition One, p.129
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