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... thing.
12&12 p.74,
Step Seven
2.
... thing.
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
3.
... thing?
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
4.
... thing.
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
5.
... thing.
12&12 p.158,
Tradition Six
6.
... thing?
12&12 p.160,
Tradition Seven
7.
... thing."
BB p.29,
There Is A Solution
Our hope is that many alcoholic men and women, desperately in need, will see these pages, and we believe that it is only by fully disclosing ourselves and our problems that they will be persuaded to say, "Yes, I am one of them too; I must have this thing."
8.
... thing.
BB p.70,
How It Works
To sum up about sex: We earnestly pray for the right ideal, for guidance in each questionable situation, for sanity, and
for the strength to do the right thing.
9.
... thing.
BB p.78,
Into Action
10.
... thing.
BB p.117,
To Wives
When we do that, we find it solves our problems too;
the ensuing lack of fear, worry and hurt feelings is a wonderful thing.
11.
... thing.
BB p.149,
To Employers
12.
... thing.
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I was between Scylla and
Charybdis now, because if I did not drink my
stomach tortured me,
and if I did my nerves did the same thing.
13.
... thing A.A.
might have been!"
12&12 p.129,
Tradition One
Back again in their caves, alcoholics would reproach us and say, "What a
great thing A.A. might have been!"
14.
... thing --
an oasis!
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
15.
... thing and
are gone beyond recall in ...
BB p.33,
More About Alcoholism
Potential female alcoholics often turn into the real thing and are gone beyond recall in a few years.
16.
... thing apparent
was that this world and ...
BB p.65,
How It Works
17.
... thing as
incompatibility, but in nearly every ...
BB p.108,
To Wives
Of course, there is such a
thing as incompatibility, but in nearly every instance the alcoholic
only seems to be unloving
and inconsiderate; it is usually because he is warped and sickened that he
says and does these appalling things.
18.
... thing as
making a normal drinker out ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is
no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic.
19.
... thing as
the personal conquest of this ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
There was, they said, no such thing as the personal conquest of this
compulsion by the unaided will.
20.
... thing can
be avoided.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
21.
... thing decreased
the man's chance of recovery.
BB p.145,
To Employers
22.
... thing had
happened.
12&12 p.149,
Tradition Four
23.
... thing he
needs to do is to ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
24.
... thing if
you assume them.
BB p.97,
Working With Others
25.
... thing in
some cases.
BB p.120,
To Wives
Though it is infinitely better that he
have no relapse at all, as
has been true with many of our
men, it is by no means a bad thing in some cases.
26.
... thing in
the world, once his liquor ...
BB p.118,
To Wives
It is the most natural thing in the world, once his liquor problem is solved, to feel that he will now measure up to that cherished vision.
27.
... thing is
being done on an individual ...
12&12 p.37,
Step Three
28.
... thing is
taking place in many eastern ...
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
29.
... thing is
that he be willing to ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
The main thing is that he be
willing to believe in a
Power greater than himself and that he live by spiritual principles.
30.
... thing is
that we make a beginning, ...
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
31.
... thing is
to lock them up, but ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
When they become too dangerous, we think the kind thing is to lock them up, but of course a good doctor should always be consulted.
32.
... thing like
that?
BB p.81,
Into Action
In fairness we must say that she may understand,
but what are we going to do about a thing like that?
33.
... thing never
fails to whip up a ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Even the suggestion of
such a thing never fails to whip up a hurricane, and we have discovered that hurricanes have a way of mauling with equal severity both the just and the unjust.
34.
... thing, no
matter what the personal consequences ...
BB p.79,
Into Action
Reminding ourselves
that we have decided to go to
any lengths to find a spiritual experience, we ask that we
be given strength and direction to do the right
thing, no matter what the personal consequences may be.
35.
... thing of
supreme value in life.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Henry Ford once made a wise remark to the effect that experience is
the thing of supreme value in life.
36.
... thing or
situation as being exactly the ...
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
37.
... thing or
situation -- some fact of my ...
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
38.
... thing supremely
well than many badly.
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
39.
... thing that
all her years of devotion ...
12&12 p.118,
Step Twelve
After the husband joins A.A., the wife may become discontented, even highly resentful that Alcoholics Anonymous
has done the very thing that all her years of devotion had failed to do.
40.
... thing that
matters is that he is ...
12&12 p.151,
Tradition Five
41.
... thing that
we had contemptuously condemned in ...
12&12 p.30,
Step Two
Self-righteousness,
the very thing that we had contemptuously condemned in others, was
our own besetting evil.
42.
... thing, they
believed, for the liquor trade ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
It would be a good thing, they
believed, for the liquor
trade to show a sense of public responsibility.
43.
... thing to
do, but it must be ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
In many homes this is a difficult thing to do, but
it must be done if any results are to be expected.
44.
... thing to
feel a part.
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
We commenced to make many fast friends and a fellowship
has grown up among us of which it is a wonderful thing to feel a part.
45.
... thing to
us!'
12&12 p.138,
Tradition Two
You can't do this thing to us!'
46.
... thing up
with his hospital or any ...
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
As generous as Charlie
has been to us, don't you see that we can't tie this thing up with his hospital or any other?
47.
... thing was
nothing but a mass of ...
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
Could we still say the whole thing was nothing but a mass of electrons, created out of nothing, meaning nothing, whirling on to a destiny
of nothingness?
48.
... thing we
have been able to offer ...
BB p.570(572),
Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A.
Dr. John F. Stouffer, Chief Psychiatrist, Philadelphia General
Hospital, citing his experience with A.A., said: "The alcoholics we get here at Philadelphia General
are mostly those who cannot
afford private treatment, and A.A. is by far the greatest thing we have been able to offer them.
49.
... thing we
need to work for.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
This being so, we think it
logically follows that
sobriety -- first, last, and all the time -- is the
only thing we need to work for.
50.
... thing, we
shall get rid of that ...
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
51.
... thing, we
still didn't belong.
12&12 p.57,
Step Five
Until we had talked with complete candor of our conflicts, and had listened to someone else do the same thing, we still didn't belong.
52.
... thing when
it becomes clear, cost what ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Do we lay the matter before our sponsor or spiritual adviser, earnestly asking God's help and guidance -- meanwhile resolving to do the right
thing when it becomes clear, cost what it may?
53.
... thing which
makes life seem so worth ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now.
54.
... thing with
our lives.
BB p.64,
How It Works
55.
... thing you
might wish to do.
BB p.147,
To Employers
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