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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)


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... unique ability of each A.A. to identify ...   12&12 p.150, Tradition Five
The unique ability of each A.A. to identify himself with, and bring recovery to, the newcomer in no way depends upon his learning, eloquence, or on any special individual skills.


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... unique and highly successful approach to that ...   BB p.571(573), Appendix IV, The Lasker Award   Display entire Appendix IV
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with this condition is being blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind."

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... unique and valuable service.   12&12 p.18, Foreword
In the view of its friends, this is but the beginning of its unique and valuable service.


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... unique but effective therapy."   BB p.572(574), Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A.   Display entire Appendix V
This self-insurance has resulted in the restoration of physical, mental and spiritual health and self-respect to hundreds of men and women who would be hopelessly down and out without its unique but effective therapy."


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... unique experience before the world.   BB xvii, Foreword to Second Edition   Display entire Foreword to Second Edition
It was now time, the struggling groups thought, to place their message and unique experience before the world.

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... unique in Alcoholics Anonymous.   12&12 p.174, Tradition Nine
But all these observers have overlooked something unique in Alcoholics Anonymous.


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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