From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... Ten: "Alcoholics
Anonymous has no opinion on ...
12&12 p.179,
Tradition Ten
Thus was laid the cornerstone for Tradition Ten: "Alcoholics Anonymous
has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy."
2.
Ten --
Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Ten -- Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
3.
... ten-dollar word.
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
4.
... ten men
drink their heads off.
BB p.138,
To Employers
I pointed out that I had had
nothing to drink whatever for three years, and this in the face of
difficulties that would have made nine out of ten men drink their heads off.
5.
... ten newcomers,
and was gently diplomatic with ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Then we saw that if a hardworking secretary
answered the phone dozens of times a day, listened to twenty wailing wives, arranged hospitalization and got
sponsorship for ten newcomers, and was gently
diplomatic with the irate drunk who complained about the job she
was doing and how she was overpaid, then such a person could surely not be called a professional
A.A.
6.
Ten --
No A.A. group or member should ...
12&12 p.192,
Tradition Ten (Long)
Ten -- No A.A. group or member should ever, in such a way as to implicate A.A., express any opinion on outside controversial issues
-- particularly those
of politics, alcohol reform, or sectarian religion.
7.
... ten o'clock
-- so what?
BB p.4,
Bill's Story
8.
... ten or
fifteen years of literal hell ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
9.
... ten or
twenty years of drunkenness would ...
BB p.83,
Into Action
10.
... ten the
unexpected happens.
BB p.78,
Into Action
11.
... ten thousand
dollars.
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
When her will was read, it was
discovered she had left
Alcoholics Anonymous in trust with the
Alcoholic Foundation a sum of ten thousand dollars.
12.
... ten thousand
dollars.
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
13.
... ten thousand
dollars, and adopted a formal, ...
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
Difficult as it was, they officially declined
that ten thousand dollars, and adopted a formal, airtight resolution that all such future gifts would be similarly declined.
14.
... ten thousand
dollars under consideration wasn't much, ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
Compared to this prospect, the ten thousand dollars under consideration
wasn't much, but like the alcoholic's first drink it would, if taken, inevitably set up a disastrous chain reaction.
15.
... Ten we
commence to put our A.A. ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
But when we approach Step
Ten we commence to put our A.A. way of living to practical use, day by day, in fair weather or foul.
16.
... Ten, we
had begun to get a ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we
would need to continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly.
17.
... Ten, which
suggests we continue to take ...
BB p.84,
Into Action
This thought brings us to
Step Ten, which suggests we continue to
take personal inventory and continue
to set right any new mistakes as we go along.
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