From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... together?"
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
2.
... together.
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
3.
... together.
BB p.99,
Working With Others
4.
... together.
BB p.106,
To Wives
5.
... together.
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
6.
... together?
BB xviii,
Foreword to Second Edition
The test that it faced was
this: Could these large numbers of erstwhile erratic alcoholics successfully meet and work together?
7.
... together and
hang together, else most of ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
We alcoholics see that we
must work together and hang together, else most of us will finally die alone.
8.
... together and
you will commence shoulder to ...
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
You will be bound to them
with new and wonderful ties, for you will escape disaster together and you will commence shoulder to shoulder your common journey.
9.
... together as
groups became the prime question.
12&12 p.130,
Tradition One
10.
... together as
we are now joined.
BB p.17,
There Is A Solution
11.
... together chatting
and drinking before your fire.
BB p.110,
To Wives
12.
... together, else
most of us will finally ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
We alcoholics see that we
must work together and hang together, else most of us will finally die alone.
13.
... together for
sobriety may call themselves an ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
So confident of this had we become that the original statement of A.A. tradition carried this significant sentence:
"Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group provided that as a group they have no other affiliation."
14.
... together for
sobriety may call themselves an ...
12&12 p.189,
Tradition Three (Long)
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a
group, they have no other affiliation.
15.
... together for
sobriety may call themselves an ...
BB p.563(565),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a
group, they have no other affiliation.
16.
... together has
come, it will be apparent ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
17.
... together in
business there will be rivalries ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
Wherever men are gathered together in business there will be rivalries and, arising out of these, a certain amount of office politics.
18.
... together on
this Step.
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
19.
... together or
die separately.
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
But out of this frightening and at first
disrupting experience the conviction grew that A.A.'s had to hang together or die separately.
20.
... together or
separately, as much as their ...
BB p.133,
The Family Afterward
21.
... together to
solve their common problems and ...
12&12 p.15,
Foreword
Alcoholics Anonymous is a worldwide fellowship
of more than one hundred thousand(*) alcoholic men and women who are banded together to solve their common problems and to help fellow sufferers in recovery
from that age-old, baffling malady, alcoholism.
22.
... together toward
an undreamed-of future.
BB p.119,
To Wives
After all, your family is
reunited, alcohol is no longer a problem and you and your husband are working together toward an undreamed-of future.
23.
... together what
we could not do separately.
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
I insisted that few drunks could ever get well on their own steam, but that in our groups we could do together
what we could not do separately.
24.
... together with
harmony and good effect.
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
But it was by no means sure that such great numbers of yet erratic people could live and work together with harmony and good effect.
25.
... together with
innumerable others who became our ...
BB xx,
Foreword to Second Edition
Another reason for the wide acceptance of A.A. was the ministration
of friends -- friends in
medicine, religion,
and the press, together with
innumerable others
who became our able and persistent advocates.
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