From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... total abstainer
would be.
BB p.139,
To Employers
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
Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total inability to point imagination toward the right objectives.
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
9.
... total membership
in a year's time.
12&12 p.186,
Tradition Twelve
The news stories of Mr. Rockefeller's dinner for Alcoholics Anonymous helped double our total membership in a year's time.
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
By March 1976, when this edition went to the printer, the total worldwide membership
of Alcoholics Anonymous was conservatively estimated at more than 1,000,000, with almost 28,000 groups meeting in over 90 countries.
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