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1.
  ... things.  BB Bill's Story, p.10
I had often pondered these things.


2.
  ... things.  BB Working With Others, pp.90-91
The family must decide these things.


3.
  ... things.  BB To Wives, p.108
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.


4.
  ... things.  BB The Family Afterward, p.132
We have been speaking to you of serious, sometimes tragic things.


5.
  ... things.  BB To Employers, pp.140-141
When drinking, or getting over a bout, an alcoholic, sometimes the model of honesty when normal, will do incredible things.


6.
  ... things?  BB To Employers, p.145
In this connection, can you remain undisturbed if the man proceeds to tell you shocking things?


7.
  ... things.  BB To Employers, p.148
We think this method of approach will accomplish several things.


8.
  ... things.  12&12 Step Six, p.64
And he wishes to be reasonably safe and secure as he tries to attain these things.


9.
  ... things.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.104
We say to ourselves, "This one ought to be cured of his fatal malady," or "That one ought to be relieved of his emotional pain," and we pray for these specific things.


10.
  ... things.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.111
These will appear as big setbacks at the time, but will be seen later as stepping-stones to better things.


11.
  ... things?  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
Can we find a new joy of living in trying to do something about all these things?


12.
  ... things.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.149
It had picked itself up with a laugh and gone on to better things.


13.
  ... things.  12&12 Tradition Six, p.155
The moment we saw that we had an answer for alcoholism, it was reasonable (or so it seemed at the time) for us to feel that we might have the answer to a lot of other things.


14.
  ... things, a feeling of jealousy may arise.  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
When he renews interest in such things, a feeling of jealousy may arise.


15.
  ... things A.A. would be able to do ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.160
What great things A.A. would be able to do with it!


16.
  ... things alcoholics are not supposed to do.  BB Working With Others, p.100
Assuming we are spiritually fit, we can do all sorts of things alcoholics are not supposed to do.


17.
  ... things and gain interest in our fellows.  BB Into Action, p.84
We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.


18.
  ... things, and sometimes this results in rebuffs ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.111
Here again we are presented with the temptation to overmanage things, and sometimes this results in rebuffs and other consequences which are hard to take.


19.
  ... things, and therefore no God at all.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.97
Surely there could be no justice in this scheme of things, and therefore no God at all.


20.
  ... things are going beautifully he dismays you ...  BB To Wives, p.120
Perhaps your husband will make a fair start on the new basis, but just as things are going beautifully he dismays you by coming home drunk.


21.
  ... things are now ruined or damaged.  BB The Family Afterward, p.123
But the head of the house has spent years in pulling down the structures of business, romance, friendship, health -- these things are now ruined or damaged.


22.
  ... things are poison.  BB How It Works, p.66
They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison.


23.
  ... things are possible."  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
The A.A. answer to these questions about living is "Yes, all of these things are possible."


24.
  ... things are the substance of what we ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled, to see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in full citizenship, and above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance of what we receive as we carry A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.


25.
  ... things at all.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.96
Or perhaps we don't believe in these things at all.


26.
  ... things began to hum.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
Soon things began to hum.


27.
  ... things, but frankly said that he was ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.135
He admitted he was overdoing these things, but frankly said that he was not ready to stop.


28.
  ... things, but in some form or other ...  BB We Agnostics, p.55
It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there.


29.
  ... things cannot happen again.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.38
We admit we have some of these symptoms, but we have not gone to the extremes you fellows did, nor are we likely to, for we understand ourselves so well after what you have told us that such things cannot happen again.


30.
  ... things done?  BB To Employers, pp.139-140
When sober, does he not work hard and have a knack of getting things done?


31.
  ... things down good, were about to apply ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
They understood that the elders, just to nail things down good, were about to apply to the Foundation for a charter.


32.
  ... Things First  BB The Family Afterward, p.135
First Things First


33.
  ... things followed.  BB How It Works, p.63
When we sincerely took such a position, all sorts of remarkable things followed.


34.
  ... things for us which we could never ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.25
He has commenced to accomplish those things for us which we could never do by ourselves.


35.
  ... things for which we cannot otherwise account.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
It explains many things for which we cannot otherwise account.


36.
  ... things go disappointingly dull.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.113
Sooner or later the pink cloud stage wears off and things go disappointingly dull.


37.
  Things go well at home and office.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
Things go well at home and office.


38.
  ... things got worse.  BB Bill's Story, p.5
Gradually things got worse.


39.
  ... things happen we should not think too ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.105
When these things happen we should not think too ill of ourselves.


40.
  ... things have happened among us, they can ...  BB A Vision For You, p.153
The practical answer is that since these things have happened among us, they can happen with you.


41.
  ... things he does on his sprees.  BB Into Action, p.73
The inconsistency is made worse by the things he does on his sprees.


42.
  ... things he wants?  BB How It Works, p.61
Is it not evident to all the rest of the players that these are the things he wants?


43.
  ... things human, their problems pile up on ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.


44.
  ... things I can, and wisdom to know ...  12&12 Step Three, pp.40-41
In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done."


45.
  ... things I cannot change, courage to change ...  12&12 Step Three, pp.40-41
In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done."


46.
  ... things in life, we are no longer ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.105
The moment we catch even a glimpse of God's will, the moment we begin to see truth, justice, and love as the real and eternal things in life, we are no longer deeply disturbed by all the seeming evidence to the contrary that surrounds us in purely human affairs.


47.
  ... things in order to stay alive himself.  12&12 Step One, p.24
No, the average alcoholic, self-centered in the extreme, doesn't care for this prospect -- unless he has to do these things in order to stay alive himself.


48.
  ... things in ourselves which had been blocking ...  BB How It Works, p.64
Though our decision was a vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us.


49.
  ... things in ourselves which had brought us ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.107
Beginning with Step Four, we commenced to search out the things in ourselves which had brought us to physical, moral, and spiritual bankruptcy.


50.
  ... things in yourself and they will be ...  BB To Wives, p.118
Show him these things in yourself and they will be reflected back to you from him.


51.
  ... things just before he died; these recollections ...  BB Bill's Story, p.10
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance pledge I never signed; my grandfather's good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness as he spoke of these things just before he died; these recollections welled up from the past.


52.
  ... things made us bristle with antagonism.  BB We Agnostics, p.48
Many of us have been so touchy that even casual reference to spiritual things made us bristle with antagonism.


53.
  ... things, money, and ourselves?  BB We Agnostics, p.54
Had we not variously worshipped people, sentiment, things, money, and ourselves?


54.
  ... things of life which we specified, as ...  12&12 Step Two, p.31
Sometimes it's because God has not delivered us the good things of life which we specified, as a greedy child makes an impossible list for Santa Claus.


55.
  ... things of which we and others are ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.102
Having opened our channel as best we can, we try to ask for those right things of which we and others are in the greatest need.


56.
  ... things, often enhance such unions.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.119
Their common suffering as drinkers, their common interest in A.A. and spiritual things, often enhance such unions.


57.
  ... things on faith which seemed difficult to ...  BB We Agnostics, p.47
That was great news to us, for we had assumed we could not make use of spiritual principles unless we accepted many things on faith which seemed difficult to believe.


58.
  ... things possible, and we only smiled.  BB We Agnostics, p.55
They said God made these things possible, and we only smiled.


59.
  ... things right.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.108
We had to begin to make our peace, and so we listed the people we had harmed and became willing to set things right.


60.
  ... things safer, the promoter organized three corporations ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
To make things safer, the promoter organized three corporations and became president of them all.


61.
  ... things terrified and distracted us.  BB To Wives, pp.106-107
The alarming physical and mental symptoms, the deepening pall of remorse, depression and inferiority that settled down on our loved ones -- these things terrified and distracted us.


62.
  ... things that are constructive.  12&12 Step Ten, p.93
As a matter of fact, the waking hours are usually well filled with things that are constructive.


63.
  ... things the hard way.  BB To Wives, p.121
We had to learn these things the hard way.


64.
  ... things the tissue out of which our ...  BB We Agnostics, p.54
Were not these things the tissue out of which our lives were constructed?


65.
  ... things, there has been a revolutionary change ...  BB We Agnostics, p.50
They flatly declare that since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking.


66.
  ... things -- these are the permanent and legitimate ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.124
Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.


67.
  ... things, they will not take so seriously ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.127
If they sense these things, they will not take so seriously his periods of crankiness, depression, or apathy, which will disappear when there is tolerance, love, and spiritual understanding.


68.
  ... things to all men.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Six), p.11
We could not be all things to all men.


69.
  ... things to all men, nor should we ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.157
We of Alcoholics Anonymous could not be all things to all men, nor should we try.


70.
  ... things to God, to ourselves, and to ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
It had been embarrassing enough when in confidence we had admitted these things to God, to ourselves, and to another human being.


71.
  ... things to ourselves.  BB Into Action, p.72
We think we have done well enough in admitting these things to ourselves.


72.
  ... things to regain self-control.  BB There Is A Solution, p.26
He wished above all things to regain self-control.


73.
  ... things to the Father of Light who ...  BB Bill's Story, p.14
I must turn in all things to the Father of Light who presides over us all.


74.
  ... things tomorrow will be the permanent assets ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.95
An honest regret for harms done, a genuine gratitude for blessings received, and a willingness to try for better things tomorrow will be the permanent assets we shall seek.


75.
  ... things was concerned, our outlook underwent the ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
Where the possession of money and material things was concerned, our outlook underwent the same revolutionary change.


76.
  ... things, we began to be possessed of ...  BB We Agnostics, p.46
As soon as we admitted the possible existence of a Creative Intelligence, a Spirit of the Universe underlying the totality of things, we began to be possessed of a new sense of power and direction, provided we took other simple steps.


77.
  ... things, we believe we will be forgiven ...  BB How It Works, p.70
If we are sorry for what we have done, and have the honest desire to let God take us to better things, we believe we will be forgiven and will have learned our lesson.


78.
  ... things we can, And wisdom to know ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.125
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, Courage to change the things we can, And wisdom to know the difference.


79.
  ... things we cannot change, Courage to change ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.125
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, Courage to change the things we can, And wisdom to know the difference.


80.
  ... things we dreamed.  12&12 Tradition Six, p.155
Here are some of the things we dreamed.


81.
  ... things we have done, meanwhile forgiving the ...  12&12 Step Eight, pp.81-82
We shall want to hold ourselves to the course of admitting the things we have done, meanwhile forgiving the wrongs done us, real or fancied.


82.
  ... things well done, and chalking up debits ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.89
Here we cast up a balance sheet, crediting ourselves with things well done, and chalking up debits where due.


83.
  ... things well done, and having searched our ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.95
Having so considered our day, not omitting to take due note of things well done, and having searched our hearts with neither fear nor favor, we can truly thank God for the blessings we have received and sleep in good conscience.


84.
  ... things were accomplished.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.161
Over many protests, these things were accomplished.


85.
  ... things were done I would enter upon ...  BB Bill's Story, p.13
My friend promised when these things were done I would enter upon a new relationship with my Creator; that I would have the elements of a way of living which answered all my problems.


86.
  ... things, were the essential requirements.  BB Bill's Story, pp.13-14
Belief in the power of God, plus enough willingness, honesty and humility to establish and maintain the new order of things, were the essential requirements.


87.
  ... things were true to some extent, in ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
These things were true to some extent, in fact, to a considerable extent with some of us.


88.
  ... things, when such action is warranted.  BB Working With Others, p.98
Yet we do go to great extremes to provide each other with these very things, when such action is warranted.


89.
  ... things which came to us when we ...  BB Working With Others, p.100
When we look back, we realize that the things which came to us when we put ourselves in God's hands were better than anything we could have planned.


90.
  ... things which go to make up the ...  BB To Wives, p.116
We wives found that, like everybody else, we were afflicted with pride, self-pity, vanity and all the things which go to make up the self-centered person; and we were not above selfishness or dishonesty.


91.
  ... things which matter so much to some ...  BB A Vision For You, p.161
Being wrecked in the same vessel, being restored and united under one God, with hearts and minds attuned to the welfare of others, the things which matter so much to some people no longer signify much to them.


92.
  ... things which only the individual can do.  12&12 Step Three, p.40
But now it appears that there are certain things which only the individual can do.


93.
  ... things which really bother and burn us, ...  12&12 Step Five, p.55
But of the things which really bother and burn us, we say nothing.


94.
  ... things which, so far as the alcoholic ...  BB To Employers, p.139
Drinking occasionally, and understanding your own reactions, it is possible for you to become quite sure of many things which, so far as the alcoholic is concerned, are not always so.


95.
  ... things which then seemed entirely out of ...  BB We Agnostics, p.47
Afterward, we found ourselves accepting many things which then seemed entirely out of reach.


96.
  ... things which they have in common are ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
And these things which they have in common are not too hard to understand.


97.
  ... things which we have admitted are objectionable?  BB Into Action, p.76
Are we now ready to let God remove from us all the things which we have admitted are objectionable?


98.
  ... things which were superficially wrong with us, ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.80
We can go far beyond those things which were superficially wrong with us, to see those flaws which were basic, flaws which sometimes were responsible for the whole pattern of our lives.


99.
  ... things while drinking.  BB There Is A Solution, p.21
He does absurd, incredible, tragic things while drinking.


100.
  ... things will come to pass naturally and ...  BB Working With Others, p.99
These things will come to pass naturally and in good time provided, however, the alcoholic continues to demonstrate that he can be sober, considerate, and helpful, regardless of what anyone says or does.


101.
  ... things will happen.  BB Working With Others, p.100
If you persist, remarkable things will happen.


102.
  ... things with all our might, but the ...  BB We Agnostics, p.45
We could wish to be moral, we could wish to be philosophically comforted, in fact, we could will these things with all our might, but the needed power wasn't there.


103.
  ... things without reference to the wishes of ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.164
Whoever pays the piper is apt to call the tune, and if the A.A. Foundation obtained money from outside sources, its trustees might be tempted to run things without reference to the wishes of A.A. as a whole.


104.
  ... things worth while in life.  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
But not so with the alcoholic illness, for with it there goes annihilation of all the things worth while in life.


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