From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... thousands.
12&12 p.142,
Tradition Three
2.
... thousands and
chattered in millions.
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
3.
... thousands came
to a few A.A. meetings ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
4.
... thousands, largely
as the result of excellent ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
In the next years alcoholics flocked to A.A. by tens of thousands, largely as the result of excellent and continuous publicity
freely given by magazines and newspapers throughout
the world.
5.
... thousands like
him.
BB p.43,
More About Alcoholism
6.
... thousands more
convincing demonstrations.
BB p.25,
There Is A Solution
7.
... thousands of
alcoholics from asylums and hospitals ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
Since this book was first published, A.A. has released thousands of alcoholics from asylums
and hospitals of every
kind.
8.
... thousands of
alcoholics such transformations, though frequent, ...
BB p.567(569),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
Among our rapidly growing membership of
thousands of alcoholics
such transformations, though frequent, are by no means the rule.
9.
Thousands of
dollars a month.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
10.
... thousands of
dollars for examinations.
BB p.73,
Into Action
11.
... thousands of
dollars, for it takes real ...
BB p.137,
To Employers
My downfall cost the business community unknown thousands of dollars, for it takes real money to train a man for an executive position.
12.
... thousands of
frantic letters from distraught alcoholics ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
He explains that when Jack
Alexander's Saturday
Evening Post piece broke in 1941, thousands of frantic letters from distraught alcoholics
and their families hit the
Foundation(*) letterbox in New York.
13.
... thousands of
groups must be answered by ...
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
Sacks of letters on every conceivable A.A. problem ranging from a lonely-heart Eskimo to the growing pains of thousands of groups must be answered by people who know.
14.
... thousands of
hopeless alcoholics who might be ...
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
While I lay in the hospital the thought came that there were thousands of
hopeless alcoholics
who might be glad to have what had been so freely given me.
15.
... thousands of
men and women who were ...
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, know thousands of men and women who were once just as hopeless as Bill.
16.
... thousands of
men and women, worldly indeed.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
17.
... thousands of
men, much like himself, have ...
BB p.113,
To Wives
18.
... thousands of
such situations.
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
19.
... thousands of
these sometimes frightening people were ...
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
How could we know that thousands of these sometimes frightening people were
to make astonishing recoveries and become our
greatest workers and intimate friends?
20.
... thousands of
years we have been demanding ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
For thousands of years we
have been demanding more
than our share of security, prestige, and
romance.
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