From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... sweep away
prejudice, enables you to think ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
If our testimony helps
sweep away prejudice, enables you to
think honestly, encourages you to search
diligently within yourself, then, if you wish,
you can join us on the Broad
Highway.
2.
... sweep away
the debris which has accumulated ...
BB p.76,
Into Action
We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves.
3.
... sweep off
our side of the street, ...
BB p.77,
Into Action
We are there to sweep off our side of the street, realizing that nothing worth while can be accomplished until we do
so, never trying to tell him what he should do.
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