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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
VAIN occurs
3 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... vain attempts
to prove we could drink ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
Therefore, it is not
surprising that our
drinking careers have been
characterized by
countless vain attempts to
prove we could
drink like other people.
2.
... vain displays
of power or glory.
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
True leadership, we
find,
depends upon able
example and not upon
vain displays of
power or
glory.
3.
... vain of
us, wasn't it?
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
Rather vain of us, wasn't it?
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