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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... text for our Society and has helped ...   BB xi, Preface   Display entire Preface
Because this book has become the basic text for our Society and has helped such large numbers of alcoholic men and women to recovery, there exists strong sentiment against any radical changes being made in it.

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... text of the Fellowship, and it still ...   12&12 p.17, Foreword
The book "Alcoholics Anonymous" became the basic text of the Fellowship, and it still is.


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... text of this book; Dr. Bob's heads ...   BB p.155, A Vision For You (Note)   Go to page 155 in the Big Book
Bill's story opens the text of this book; Dr. Bob's heads the Story Section.


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... text, those words have proved to be ...   BB xxiii, Foreword to Fourth Edition   Display entire Foreword to Fourth Edition
Like so much of A.A.'s basic text, those words have proved to be far more visionary than the founding members could ever have imagined.


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... text "twos and threes and fives of ...   BB xv, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
Already," continues the early text "twos and threes and fives of us have sprung up in other communities."


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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