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... urgent importance
to alcoholics, but its application ...
BB
The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvii
We doctors have realized
for a long time that some form of moral psychology was of urgent importance to alcoholics, but its application presented
difficulties beyond
our conception.
2.
... urgent need
for continuous effectiveness and permanent ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
Therefore, no society of men and women ever had a more urgent need for continuous effectiveness and permanent unity.
3.
... urgent questions,
"How can A.A. best function?" ...
BB
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous
are, we A.A.'s believe, the best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can
A.A. best stay whole and so survive?"
4.
... urgent requirement
which could supply us with ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.120
When our drinking had become much worse, money was only an urgent requirement which could
supply us with the next drink and the temporary comfort of oblivion it brought.
5.
... urgent than
ever.
12&12
Step Five, p.55
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed
in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we
have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
6.
... urgent thing
is that we make a ...
12&12
Step Six, p.68
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