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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
THINKS occurs
14 times
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Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... thinks he
can do the job in ...
BB p.95,
Working With Others
If he
thinks he can do the
job
in some other way, or
prefers some other
spiritual approach,
encourage him to
follow
his
own conscience.
2.
... thinks he
can ever drink again, even ...
BB p.142,
To Employers
If he
temporizes and still
thinks he can ever
drink again,
even
beer, he might as well be
discharged after the
next
bender which, if an
alcoholic, he is almost
certain to have.
3.
... thinks he
can run the whole show.'
12&12 p.153,
Tradition Five
"'Well,' said I, 'I
think you're just a
conceited Irishman who
thinks he can
run the
whole show.'
4.
... thinks he
has the answer.
BB p.144,
To Employers
Ask him if he
thinks he has the
answer.
5.
... thinks he
is not an alcoholic, we ...
BB p.113,
To Wives
If he is
lukewarm or
thinks he is not an
alcoholic,
we
suggest you
leave him
alone.
6.
... thinks himself
lost to the comfort of ...
12&12 p.28,
Step Two
He
thinks himself
lost to the
comfort of any
conviction at all.
7.
... thinks his
mental condition too abnormal or ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
8.
... thinks, is
just about the last straw.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
This, the
newcomer thinks,
is just about the
last straw.
9.
... thinks of
all the bridges to safety ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
10.
... thinks of
little else.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
He may either
plunge into a
frantic attempt to get on
his
feet in
business, or
he may be so
enthralled by his new
life that he
talks or
thinks of
little else.
11.
... thinks of
yesterday.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
Our
friend is still
victimized by
remorse
and
guilt when he
thinks of
yesterday.
12.
... thinks society
has wronged him; and the ...
BB p.62,
How It Works
He is like the
retired business man who
lolls in the
Florida sunshine in the
winter complaining of the
sad state of the
nation; the
minister who
sighs over the
sins of the
twentieth century;
politicians
and
reformers who are
sure all would be
Utopia if the
rest of the
world would only
behave; the
outlaw safe cracker who
thinks society has
wronged him; and the
alcoholic who has
lost all
and is
locked up.
13.
... thinks there
is?
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
No
matter how much one
wishes to
try,
exactly how can he
turn his
own will and his
own life over to the
care of whatever
God he
thinks there is?
14.
... thinks, to
admit alcohol has him down ...
12&12 p.25,
Step Two
It's
bad enough, he
thinks, to
admit alcohol has him down for
keeps.
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