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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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1.
... total abstainer
would be.
BB p.139,
To Employers
Those who
drink moderately may be more
annoyed with an
alcoholic
than a
total abstainer
would be.
2.
... total failure
of their human resources, they ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
In the
face of
collapse
and
despair, in the
face of
the
total failure of their
human resources, they
found that a new
power,
peace,
happiness, and
sense of
direction flowed into them.
3.
... total field
of alcoholism.
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
The
A.A. groups, many
thought, could go into
business, might
finance
any
enterprise whatever in the
total field of
alcoholism.
4.
... total inability
to form a true partnership ...
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
The
primary fact that we
fail to
recognize is our
total inability to
form a
true partnership with another
human being.
5.
... total inability
to point imagination toward the ...
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
6.
... total income
was thirty dollars a week ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
7.
... total liability.
12&12 p.22,
Step One
Then we had been told that so far as
alcohol is
concerned,
self-
confidence was no
good
whatever; in
fact, it was a
total liability.
8.
... total list
was a mile long.
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
The
total list was a
mile long.
9.
... total membership
in a year's time.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
10.
... total of
half a million dollars set ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
They
pointed out that the
Foundation board already
knew of a
total of
half a
million dollars set aside for
A.A. in the
wills of people still
alive.
11.
... total of
more than 1,150,500 copies.
BB xi,
Preface
12.
... total problem
of several million actual and ...
BB xxi,
Foreword to Second Edition
So far, upon the
total problem of several
million
actual and
potential alcoholics in the
world,
we have made only a
scratch.
13.
... total worldwide
membership of Alcoholics Anonymous was ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous
and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
The A.A. Preamble, copyright ©
The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.
Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or
endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.
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