From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... tendency to
eat sweets and have found ...
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
2.
... tendency to
rationalize have distorted his so-called ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
He may have forgotten the possibility that his own wishful thinking and the
human tendency to rationalize have distorted his so-called guidance.
3.
... tendency to
take advantage of intimate information.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
This is a condition which, in ordinary life, would produce untold grief; there might be scandalous gossip, laughter at the expense of
other people, and a tendency to take advantage of intimate information.
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