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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
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
6.
... things?
BB
To Employers, p.145
7.
... things.
BB
To Employers, p.148
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
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
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
18.
... things, and
sometimes this results in rebuffs ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.111
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
21.
... things are
now ruined or damaged.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.123
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
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
33.
... things followed.
BB
How It Works, p.63
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
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
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
44.
... things I
can, and wisdom to know ...
12&12
Step Three, pp.40-41
45.
... things I
cannot change, courage to change ...
12&12
Step Three, pp.40-41
46.
... things in
life, we are no longer ...
12&12
Step Eleven, p.105
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
49.
... things in
ourselves which had brought us ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.107
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
52.
... things made
us bristle with antagonism.
BB
We Agnostics, p.48
53.
... things, money,
and ourselves?
BB
We Agnostics, p.54
54.
... things of
life which we specified, as ...
12&12
Step Two, p.31
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
57.
... things on
faith which seemed difficult to ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
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
61.
... things terrified
and distracted us.
BB
To Wives, pp.106-107
62.
... things that
are constructive.
12&12
Step Ten, p.93
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
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
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
71.
... things to
ourselves.
BB
Into Action, p.72
72.
... things to
regain self-control.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.26
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
75.
... things was
concerned, our outlook underwent the ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.120
76.
... things, we
began to be possessed of ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.46
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
82.
... things well
done, and chalking up debits ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.89
83.
... things well
done, and having searched our ...
12&12
Step Ten, p.95
84.
... things were
accomplished.
12&12
Tradition Seven, p.161
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
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
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
91.
... things which
matter so much to some ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.161
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
95.
... things which
then seemed entirely out of ...
BB
We Agnostics, p.47
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
99.
... things while
drinking.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.21
100.
... things will
come to pass naturally and ...
BB
Working With Others, p.99
101.
... things will
happen.
BB
Working With Others, p.100
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
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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