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


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1.
  ... away.  BB We Agnostics, p.56
The barriers he had built through the years were swept away.


2.
  ... away.  BB We Agnostics, p.56
His alcoholic problem was taken away.


3.
  ... away.  BB Into Action, p.84
Self-seeking will slip away.


4.
  ... away.  BB To Wives, p.104
But for every man who drinks others are involved -- the wife who trembles in fear of the next debauch; the mother and father who see their son wasting away.


5.
  ... away.  BB To Wives, p.105
We have run away.


6.
  ... away.  BB To Wives, p.110
Maybe you have already been obliged to put him away.


7.
  ... away.  BB To Wives, p.120
If not, it had better be found out right away.


8.
  ... away.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Five), p.11
Sobriety can't be kept unless it is given away.


9.
  ... away.  12&12 Step Eight, pp.77-78
But if a willing start is made, then the great advantages of doing this will so quickly reveal themselves that the pain will be lessened as one obstacle after another melts away.


10.
  ... away.  12&12 Tradition One, p.130
Moreover, he finds he cannot keep this priceless gift unless he gives it away.


11.
  ... away.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.151
It is the great paradox of A.A. that we know we can seldom keep the precious gift of sobriety unless we give it away.


12.
  ... away, a subtle change begins.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.135
As their grief and anxiety wear away, a subtle change begins.


13.
  ... away and our isolation had become complete, ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.116
But when self-will had driven everybody away and our isolation had become complete, it caused us to play the big shot in cheap barrooms and then fare forth alone on the street to depend upon the charity of passersby.


14.
  ... away and walked down the lobby to ...  BB A Vision For You, p.154
With a shiver, he turned away and walked down the lobby to the church directory.


15.
  ... away any alcoholic's chance at A.A. was ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition Three), p.10
To take away any alcoholic's chance at A.A. was sometimes to pronounce his death sentence.


16.
  ... away any alcoholic's full chance was sometimes ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.141
At last experience taught us that to take away any alcoholic's full chance was sometimes to pronounce his death sentence, and often to condemn him to endless misery.


17.
  ... away any more than alcohol.  BB How It Works, p.66
We could not wish them away any more than alcohol.


18.
  ... away by ourselves.  12&12 Step Five, p.58
And we soon found that we could not wish or will them away by ourselves.


19.
  ... away for treatment will not be mentioned.  BB To Employers, pp.147-148
If you take it, your past will be forgotten and the fact that you went away for treatment will not be mentioned.


20.
  ... away from a highly strained, abnormal condition.  BB The Family Afterward, p.122
Cessation of drinking is but the first step away from a highly strained, abnormal condition.


21.
  ... away from drink, as he may do ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.22
We know that while the alcoholic keeps away from drink, as he may do for months or years, he reacts much like other men.


22.
  ... away from him to throw down the ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.22
If he can afford it, he may have liquor concealed all over his house to be certain no one gets his entire supply away from him to throw down the wastepipe.


23.
  ... away from home more than when he ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.118
Her husband may become so wrapped up in A.A. and his new friends that he is inconsiderately away from home more than when he drank.


24.
  ... away from meditation and prayer, we likewise ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.97
And when we turn away from meditation and prayer, we likewise deprive our minds, our emotions, and our intuitions of vitally needed support.


25.
  ... away from our aversion to the idea ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.73
To get completely away from our aversion to the idea of being humble, to gain a vision of humility as the avenue to true freedom of the human spirit, to be willing to work for humility as something to be desired for itself, takes most of us a long, long time.


26.
  ... away from the subject of God.  BB Into Action, p.77
We don't use this as an excuse for shying away from the subject of God.


27.
  ... away from their individual responsibilities to act ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
Nor does it mean that the members of Alcoholics Anonymous, now restored as citizens of the world, are going to back away from their individual responsibilities to act as they see the right upon issues of our time.


28.
  ... away from us, bored or hurt.  12&12 Step Ten, p.92
Of course, people turned away from us, bored or hurt.


29.
  ... away from you.  BB To Employers, p.145
He may, for example, reveal that he has padded his expense account or that he has planned to take your best customers away from you.


30.
  ... away has fifteen fellows of Alcoholics Anonymous.  BB A Vision For You, p.161
A community thirty miles away has fifteen fellows of Alcoholics Anonymous.


31.
  ... away, he'll soon die.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
If we turn this man away, he'll soon die.


32.
  ... away, his home is a near-wreck and ...  BB To Wives, p.110
His friends have slipped away, his home is a near-wreck and he cannot hold a position.


33.
  ... away his means of livelihood.  BB Into Action, p.80
If he opened that old affair, he was afraid it would destroy the reputation of his partner, disgrace his family and take away his means of livelihood.


34.
  ... away in an hour.  BB Into Action, p.78
Sometimes the man we are calling upon admits his own fault, so feuds of years' standing melt away in an hour.


35.
  ... away morbidity and encourage balance.  12&12 Step Four, p.46
This tends to clear away morbidity and encourage balance.


36.
  ... away my difficulties, that victory over them ...  BB How It Works, p.63
Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life.


37.
  ... away prejudice, enables you to think honestly, ...  BB We Agnostics, p.55
If our testimony helps sweep away prejudice, enables you to think honestly, encourages you to search diligently within yourself, then, if you wish, you can join us on the Broad Highway.


38.
  ... away, root and branch.  BB Bill's Story, p.13
I ruthlessly faced my sins and became willing to have my new-found Friend take them away, root and branch.


39.
  ... away the debris of the past, we ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.77
First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop the best possible relations with every human being we know.


40.
  ... away the debris which has accumulated out ...  BB Into Action, p.76
We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves.


41.
  ... away the entire product.  BB The Family Afterward, p.129
He may not see at once that he has barely scratched a limitless lode which will pay dividends only if he mines it for the rest of his life and insists on giving away the entire product.


42.
  ... away the self-will which has always blocked ...  12&12 Step Three, p.34
Like all the remaining Steps, Step Three calls for affirmative action, for it is only by action that we can cut away the self-will which has always blocked the entry of God -- or, if you like, a Higher Power -- into our lives.


43.
  ... away the theory or gadget which does ...  BB We Agnostics, p.52
Is not our age characterized by the ease with which we discard old ideas for new, by the complete readiness with which we throw away the theory or gadget which does not work for something new which does?


44.
  ... away the wreck.  BB The Family Afterward, p.123
It will take time to clear away the wreck.


45.
  ... away the wreckage of your past.  BB A Vision For You, p.164
Clear away the wreckage of your past.


46.
  ... away, we were bitterly hurt and disappointed.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.115
But when they finally resisted or ran away, we were bitterly hurt and disappointed.


47.
  ... away, whichever seems best.  BB Working With Others, p.102
Go or stay away, whichever seems best.


48.
  ... away with a few drinks now and ...  BB To Employers, p.142
If he says yes, does he really mean it, or down inside does he think he is fooling you, and that after rest and treatment he will be able to get away with a few drinks now and then?


49.
  ... away with an answer.  BB A Vision For You, p.160
Many an alcoholic who entered there came away with an answer.


50.
  ... away with it.  BB To Wives, p.108
Don't let him get away with it.


51.
  ... away with them.  BB A Vision For You, p.152
Inwardly he would give anything to take half a dozen drinks and get away with them.


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