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


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1.
  ... man.  BB Bill's Story, p.8
Trembling, I stepped from the hospital a broken man.


2.
  ... man.  BB There Is A Solution, p.26
But this man still lives, and is a free man.


3.
  ... man.  BB There Is A Solution, p.28
Here was the terrible dilemma in which our friend found himself when he had the extraordinary experience, which as we have already told you, made him a free man.


4.
  ... man.  BB How It Works, p.67
When a person offended we said to ourselves, "This is a sick man.


5.
  ... man's.  BB How It Works, p.67
The inventory was ours, not the other man's.


6.
  ... man.  BB Into Action, p.80
He subsequently denied having received the money and used the incident as a basis for discrediting the man.


7.
  ... man.  BB Working With Others, p.96
Suppose now you are making your second visit to a man.


8.
  ... man.  BB To Wives, p.111
He may seek someone else to console him -- not always another man.


9.
  ... man.  BB The Family Afterward, p.128
Overnight, as it were, he is a different man.


10.
  ... man.  BB To Employers, p.141
Had they fired me first, and had they then taken steps to see that I was presented with the solution contained in this book, I might have returned to them six months later, a well man.


11.
  ... man.  BB To Employers, p.147
If you are an alcoholic, you are a mighty sick man.


12.
  ... man.  BB A Vision For You, p.158
That afternoon he put on his clothes and walked from the hospital a free man.


13.
  ... man.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.122
He wants to be his country's number one man.


14.
  ... man.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.152
"I was soon sitting beside a big hulk of a man.


15.
  ... man a chance.  BB To Employers, p.148
We think we are sensible when we urge that you stop this waste and give your worthwhile man a chance.


16.
  ... Man a grim jest.  BB Bill's Story, p.11
Judging from what I had seen in Europe and since, the power of God in human affairs was negligible, the Brotherhood of Man a grim jest.


17.
  ... man accepts your offer, it should be ...  BB To Employers, p.143
If your man accepts your offer, it should be pointed out that physical treatment is but a small part of the picture.


18.
  ... man afterward, and stopped drinking abruptly.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
I had a couple of shorter talks with this man afterward, and stopped drinking abruptly.


19.
  ... man agreed that no amount of will ...  BB A Vision For You, p.155
When our friend related his experience, the man agreed that no amount of will power he might muster could stop his drinking for long.


20.
  ... man alone, if possible.  BB Working With Others, p.91
See your man alone, if possible.


21.
  ... man, an A.A. with the necessary experience.  12&12 Tradition Six, p.157
Soon they'd spotted their man, an A.A. with the necessary experience.


22.
  ... man an injustice.  BB To Employers, p.138
I felt this was inevitable and wondered if the bank was doing the man an injustice.


23.
  ... man and God.  12&12 Contents (Step Five), p.6
Beginning of true kinship with man and God.


24.
  ... man and God.  12&12 Step Five, p.57
It was the beginning of true kinship with man and God.


25.
  ... man and God the daily basis of ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living.


26.
  ... man and his family, you should take ...  BB Working With Others, p.100
When working with a man and his family, you should take care not to participate in their quarrels.


27.
  ... man and his wife placed their large ...  BB A Vision For You, p.160
One man and his wife placed their large home at the disposal of this strangely assorted crowd.


28.
  ... man and in their own way they ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.134
In time they will see that he is a new man and in their own way they will let him know it.


29.
  ... man and over one hundred others appear ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
This man and over one hundred others appear to have recovered.


30.
  ... man and say approximately this, "Look here, ...  BB To Employers, p.147
After reading this book, a junior executive can go to such a man and say approximately this, "Look here, Ed.


31.
  ... man and watch his hope rise as ...  BB We Agnostics, p.45
Many times we talk to a new man and watch his hope rise as we discuss his alcoholic problems and explain our fellowship.


32.
  ... man and woman came to A.A. because ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.186
Many a new man and woman came to A.A. because of such conversations.


33.
  ... man and woman who has joined A.A. ...  12&12 Step Three, p.35
Every man and woman who has joined A.A. and intends to stick has, without realizing it, made a beginning on Step Three.


34.
  ... man at last.  BB Into Action, p.75
Carefully reading the first five proposals we ask if we have omitted anything, for we are building an arch through which we shall walk a free man at last.


35.
  ... man at retirement, he went to pieces ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.33
Though a robust man at retirement, he went to pieces quickly and was dead within four years.


36.
  ... man at work long beyond a reasonable ...  BB To Employers, p.137
Because of the employee's special ability, or of his own strong personal attachment to him, the employer has sometimes kept such a man at work long beyond a reasonable period.


37.
  ... man away, he'll soon die.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
If we turn this man away, he'll soon die.


38.
  ... man be a real alcoholic, the happy ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.23
The tragic truth is that if the man be a real alcoholic, the happy day may not arrive.


39.
  ... man be agnostic or atheist, make it ...  BB Working With Others, p.93
If the man be agnostic or atheist, make it emphatic that he does not have to agree with your conception of God.


40.
  ... man's brain be cleared before he is ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
More often than not, it is imperative that a man's brain be cleared before he is approached, as he has then a better chance of understanding and accepting what we have to offer.


41.
  ... man brimming over with self-reliance and contentment.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
From a trembling, despairing, nervous wreck, had emerged a man brimming over with self-reliance and contentment.


42.
  ... man, but who had been cured by ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
But this was a man who had experienced many years of frightful drinking, who had had most all the drunkard's experiences known to man, but who had been cured by the very means I had been trying to employ, that is to say the spiritual approach.


43.
  ... man by name, and partly recognized his ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
I knew the man by name, and partly recognized his features, but there all resemblance ended.


44.
  ... man can also stop or moderate, although ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.21
If a sufficiently strong reason -- ill health, falling in love, change of environment, or the warning of a doctor -- becomes operative, this man can also stop or moderate, although he may find it difficult and troublesome and may even need medical attention.


45.
  ... man can build a house until he ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.100
After all, no man can build a house until he first envisions a plan for it.


46.
  ... man can inform you.(*)  BB A Vision For You, p.162
This practice enables us to lend a hand, at the same time avoiding certain alluring distractions of the road, about which any traveling man can inform you.(*)


47.
  ... man can say that he does believe, ...  BB We Agnostics, p.47
As soon as a man can say that he does believe, or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is on his way.


48.
  ... man cannot help himself except by helping ...  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
The Episcopal magazine, The Living Church, observes editorially: "The basis of the technique of Alcoholics Anonymous is the truly Christian principle that a man cannot help himself except by helping others.


49.
  ... man's chance of recovery.  BB To Employers, p.145
Naturally this sort of thing decreased the man's chance of recovery.


50.
  ... man coming in the door couldn't get ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.161
We saw that if they weren't, the man coming in the door couldn't get a break.


51.
  ... man coming in the door the break ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.169
She was helping to give the man coming in the door the break he ought to have.


52.
  ... man could be so weak, stupid and ...  BB To Employers, p.139
When dealing with an alcoholic, there may be a natural annoyance that a man could be so weak, stupid and irresponsible.


53.
  ... man could never fly?  BB We Agnostics, p.51
Was it not true that the best mathematical minds had proved man could never fly?


54.
  ... man could never fly?  BB We Agnostics, p.55
What about people who proved that man could never fly?


55.
  ... man couldn't do.  12&12 Step Two, p.29
Scientific progress told us there was nothing man couldn't do.


56.
  ... man did not fully realize what it ...  BB A Vision For You, p.155
Painfully aware of being somehow abnormal, the man did not fully realize what it meant to be alcoholic.(*)


57.
  ... man did slip and was fired.  BB To Employers, p.139
Presently the man did slip and was fired.


58.
  ... man do or say that was different ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
The question which might naturally come into your mind would be: "what did the man do or say that was different from what others had done or said?"


59.
  ... man does not want to stop, he ...  BB To Employers, p.141
If you are sure your man does not want to stop, he may as well be discharged, the sooner the better.


60.
  ... man drinks so much that his job ...  BB To Employers, p.148
If a man drinks so much that his job suffers, we fire him.


61.
  ... man exert himself there.  BB The Family Afterward, p.127
Since the home has suffered more than anything else, it is well that a man exert himself there.


62.
  ... man's experience to think that they can ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.33
Young people may be encouraged by this man's experience to think that they can stop, as he did, on their own will power.


63.
  ... man's face as he replied, "Oh, but ...  BB A Vision For You, p.157
Hopelessness was written large on the man's face as he replied, "Oh, but that's no use.


64.
  ... man familiar with the subject.  12&12 Tradition Eight, pp.169-170
A corporation wanted a personnel man familiar with the subject.


65.
  ... man's family into a spiritual way of ...  BB A Vision For You, p.159
They experienced a few distressing failures, but in those cases they made an effort to bring the man's family into a spiritual way of living, thus relieving much worry and suffering.


66.
  ... man's family is sure to be great.  BB Working With Others, p.99
If persisted in for a few months, the effect on a man's family is sure to be great.


67.
  ... man's family that he has been a ...  BB Working With Others, p.100
But urge upon a man's family that he has been a very sick person and should be treated accordingly.


68.
  ... man's fault.  12&12 Step Eight, p.79
Those who did would sometimes assure us that, after all, a lively bender was only a good man's fault.


69.
  ... man followed the usual pattern, he would ...  BB To Employers, p.138
The only answer I could make was that if the man followed the usual pattern, he would go on a bigger bust than ever.


70.
  ... man for an executive position.  BB To Employers, p.137
My downfall cost the business community unknown thousands of dollars, for it takes real money to train a man for an executive position.


71.
  ... man from needless provocation and unfair criticism.  BB To Employers, p.146
The employer cannot play favorites, but he can always defend a man from needless provocation and unfair criticism.


72.
  ... man from temptation is doomed to failure.  BB Working With Others, p.101
In our belief any scheme of combating alcoholism which proposes to shield the sick man from temptation is doomed to failure.


73.
  ... man had ability, good sense, and high ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.26
A certain American business man had ability, good sense, and high character.


74.
  ... man had first crushed grapes.  12&12 Step One, p.22
And this had been true, apparently, ever since man had first crushed grapes.


75.
  ... man has.  BB We Agnostics, p.47
When people presented us with spiritual approaches, how frequently did we all say, "I wish I had what that man has.


76.
  ... man has a charming wife and family.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
This man has a charming wife and family.


77.
  ... man has gone along without drinking for ...  BB To Employers, p.146
After your man has gone along without drinking for a few months, you may be able to make use of his services with other employees who are giving you the alcoholic run-around -- provided, of course, they are willing to have a third party in the picture.


78.
  ... man has probably been trying to conceal ...  BB To Employers, p.140
Your man has probably been trying to conceal a number of scrapes, perhaps pretty messy ones.


79.
  ... man, he remained bone dry for twenty-five ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.32
An exceptional man, he remained bone dry for twenty-five years and retired at the age of fifty-five, after a successful and happy business career.


80.
  ... man himself.  BB We Agnostics, p.55
For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.


81.
  ... man in everlasting ignorance -- that principle is ...  BB Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.568
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance -- that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -- Herbert Spencer


82.
  ... man in mind.  BB To Employers, p.141
Perhaps you have such a man in mind.


83.
  ... man in our ranks, why wouldn't he ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.157
If they could find a good public relations man in our ranks, why wouldn't he be ideal?


84.
  ... man in the bed was told of ...  BB A Vision For You, p.157
The man in the bed was told of the acute poisoning from which he suffered, how it deteriorates the body of an alcoholic and warps his mind.


85.
  ... man in the hospital and visit him ...  BB A Vision For You, p.159
They were willing, by day or night, to place a new man in the hospital and visit him afterward.


86.
  ... man in the street says, "I don't ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.174
The man in the street says, "I don't understand it.


87.
  ... man instincts to help him to stay ...  12&12 Step Six, p.64
He did not design man to destroy himself by alcohol, but He did give man instincts to help him to stay alive.


88.
  ... man into your home for a few ...  BB Working With Others, p.96
Perhaps you will want to take the man into your home for a few days.


89.
  ... man is affected, the wife must become ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.118
If the man is affected, the wife must become the head of the house, often the breadwinner.


90.
  ... man is anxious to proceed at once, ...  BB Working With Others, p.95
Sometimes a new man is anxious to proceed at once, and you may be tempted to let him do so.


91.
  ... man is better, the doctor might suggest ...  BB Working With Others, p.91
When your man is better, the doctor might suggest a visit from you.


92.
  ... man is done drinking.  BB To Employers, p.138
But I'm sure this man is done drinking.


93.
  ... man is presented with this volume it ...  BB To Employers, p.144
When the man is presented with this volume it is best that no one tell him he must abide by its suggestions.


94.
  ... man is sure to be impressed with ...  BB Into Action, p.77
But our man is sure to be impressed with a sincere desire to set right the wrong.


95.
  ... man is unthinking when he says that ...  BB Into Action, p.82
We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough.


96.
  ... man, it is Fred.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.39
If ever there was a successful business man, it is Fred.


97.
  ... man's life so as to shield him ...  BB To Wives, p.120
We never, never try to arrange a man's life so as to shield him from temptation.


98.
  ... man like himself, a spiritual life which ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.129
He will perceive that his spiritual growth is lopsided, that for an average man like himself, a spiritual life which does not include his family obligations may not be so perfect after all.


99.
  ... man like you has begun to solve ...  12&12 Step Two, p.27
Many a man like you has begun to solve the problem by the method of substitution.


100.
  ... man-made millennium lies just ahead.  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
The immense resources now being harnessed promise such a quantity of material blessings that many have come to believe that a man-made millennium lies just ahead.


101.
  ... man's magnificent attributes.  BB We Agnostics, p.53
That is one of man's magnificent attributes.


102.
  ... man may be trusted.  BB To Employers, p.146
Your man may be trusted.


103.
  ... man may criticize or laugh at himself ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.125
A man may criticize or laugh at himself and it will affect others favorably, but criticism or ridicule coming from another often produces the contrary effect.


104.
  ... man must decide for himself.  BB To Employers, p.144
The man must decide for himself.


105.
  ... man must walk day by day in ...  BB Working With Others, p.100
Both you and the new man must walk day by day in the path of spiritual progress.


106.
  ... man's natural desires cause him great trouble, ...  12&12 Step Four, p.42
When thus out of joint, man's natural desires cause him great trouble, practically all the trouble there is.


107.
  ... man needs hospitalization, he should have it, ...  BB Working With Others, p.91
If your man needs hospitalization, he should have it, but not forcibly unless he is violent.


108.
  ... man no flavor for his fare and ...  BB How It Works, p.69
One school would allow man no flavor for his fare and the other would have us all on a straight pepper diet.


109.
  ... man, normal so far as we can ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
He is an intelligent man, normal so far as we can see, except for a nervous disposition.


110.
  ... man, not too closely followed by those ...  BB Bill's Story, p.11
To Christ I conceded the certainty of a great man, not too closely followed by those who claimed Him.


111.
  ... man of means, I knew that if ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, pp.175-176
Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.


112.
  ... man of recognized ability and both my ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.171
My father was a professional man of recognized ability and both my father and mother were most active in church affairs.


113.
  ... man of thirty was doing a great ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.32
A man of thirty was doing a great deal of spree drinking.


114.
  ... man on religious grounds?  12&12 Tradition Five, p.153
"Now," concludes the oldtimer, "suppose I'd been obliged to talk to this man on religious grounds?


115.
  ... man's opinion based on his own experience, ...  12&12 Step Two, p.27
"This is only one man's opinion based on his own experience, of course.


116.
  ... man or a woman has a spiritual ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening, the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not do before on his unaided strength and resources alone.


117.
  ... man, or even a first-rater in the ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.122
In later life he finds that real happiness is not to be found in just trying to be a number one man, or even a first-rater in the heartbreaking struggle for money, romance, or self-importance.


118.
  ... man or woman.  12&12 Step Two, p.29
Now we come to another kind of problem: the intellectually self-sufficient man or woman.


119.
  ... man or woman could be excluded from ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xix
It was thought that no alcoholic man or woman could be excluded from our Society; that our leaders might serve but never govern; that each group was to be autonomous and there was to be no professional class of therapy.


120.
  ... man or woman, for example, should be ...  12&12 Step Three, p.38
No adult man or woman, for example, should be in too much emotional dependence upon a parent.


121.
  ... man plays God, sounds good in the ...  12&12 Step Three, p.37
This brave philosophy, wherein each man plays God, sounds good in the speaking, but it still has to meet the acid test: how well does it actually work?


122.
  ... man prepares us for following Steps.  12&12 Contents (Step Five), p.6
Oneness with God and man prepares us for following Steps.


123.
  ... man's pride in his own achievements.  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
Much of the everyday talk we hear, and a great deal of what we read, highlights man's pride in his own achievements.


124.
  ... man proceeds to tell you shocking things?  BB To Employers, p.145
In this connection, can you remain undisturbed if the man proceeds to tell you shocking things?


125.
  ... man recounts that he tumbled out of ...  BB We Agnostics, p.56
This man recounts that he tumbled out of bed to his knees.


126.
  ... man, religion and that instinct for association ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
Dr. Foster Kennedy, neurologist: "This organization of Alcoholics Anonymous calls on two of the greatest reservoirs of power known to man, religion and that instinct for association with one's fellows ... the 'herd instinct.'


127.
  ... man, risen so majestically from a single ...  12&12 Step Two, p.25
How he does cherish the thought that man, risen so majestically from a single cell in the primordial ooze, is the spearhead of evolution and therefore the only god that his universe knows!


128.
  ... man should be fired just because he ...  BB To Employers, p.148
It boils right down to this: No man should be fired just because he is alcoholic.


129.
  ... man should be on his mettle to ...  BB To Employers, p.146
Your man should be on his mettle to make good.


130.
  ... man should be sure of his recovery.  BB Working With Others, p.99
The man should be sure of his recovery.


131.
  ... man should be thoroughly probed on these ...  BB To Employers, p.142
We believe a man should be thoroughly probed on these points.


132.
  ... man sinking into the mire that is ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.132
When we see a man sinking into the mire that is alcoholism, we give him first aid and place what we have at his disposal.


133.
  ... man so involved often feels very remorseful ...  BB Into Action, p.81
A man so involved often feels very remorseful at times, especially if he is married to a loyal and courageous girl who has literally gone through hell for him.


134.
  ... man so obstinate.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.151
I never saw a man so obstinate.


135.
  ... man still lives, and is a free ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.26
But this man still lives, and is a free man.


136.
  ... man tends to be impotent.  BB The Family Afterward, p.134
Couples are occasionally dismayed to find that when drinking is stopped the man tends to be impotent.


137.
  ... man that alcoholics of our type are ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.30
We are convinced to a man that alcoholics of our type are in the grip of a progressive illness.


138.
  ... man that he can get well regardless ...  BB Working With Others, p.98
Burn the idea into the consciousness of every man that he can get well regardless of anyone.


139.
  ... man, the kind who recovers, will not ...  BB To Employers, p.149
The right kind of man, the kind who recovers, will not want this sort of thing.


140.
  ... man, the revelation was sudden.  BB We Agnostics, p.57
To this man, the revelation was sudden.


141.
  ... man, the sort of chap we would ...  BB To Wives, p.118
We women carry with us a picture of the ideal man, the sort of chap we would like our husbands to be.


142.
  ... man, "the very image.  BB A Vision For You, p.157
"Yes, that's me," said the sick man, "the very image.


143.
  ... man there, I would be amazingly lifted ...  BB Bill's Story, p.15
On talking to a man there, I would be amazingly lifted up and set on my feet.


144.
  ... man, this emerging from isolation through the ...  12&12 Step Five, p.62
This feeling of being at one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves for the following Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.


145.
  ... man thought he had neatly evaded or ...  BB We Agnostics, p.45
But his face falls when we speak of spiritual matters, especially when we mention God, for we have re-opened a subject which our man thought he had neatly evaded or entirely ignored.


146.
  ... man through his family.  BB Working With Others, p.91
When possible, avoid meeting a man through his family.


147.
  ... man to destroy himself by alcohol, but ...  12&12 Step Six, p.64
He did not design man to destroy himself by alcohol, but He did give man instincts to help him to stay alive.


148.
  ... man, want to know the necessities before ...  BB To Employers, p.140
You, as a business man, want to know the necessities before considering the result.


149.
  ... man wants to recover and that he ...  BB To Employers, p.142
After satisfying yourself that your man wants to recover and that he will go to any extreme to do so, you may suggest a definite course of action.


150.
  ... man was brought in to be treated ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
About one year prior to this experience a man was brought in to be treated for chronic alcoholism.


151.
  ... man we are calling upon admits his ...  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.


152.
  ... man we hated will arise.  BB Into Action, p.77
The question of how to approach the man we hated will arise.


153.
  ... man we know had remarried.  BB Into Action, p.79
A man we know had remarried.


154.
  ... man, we saw, could believe in God ...  12&12 Step Two, p.31
No man, we saw, could believe in God and defy Him, too.


155.
  ... man we understood not at all.  12&12 Step Two, p.32
The love of God and man we understood not at all.


156.
  ... man which is eminently fair and square.  BB To Employers, p.148
He will be able to take a position with such a man which is eminently fair and square.


157.
  ... man who at fifty-five years found he ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.33
But here is a man who at fifty-five years found he was just where he had left off at thirty.


158.
  ... man who can and will get well ...  BB To Employers, p.142
Either you are dealing with a man who can and will get well or you are not.


159.
  ... man who cannot or will not work ...  BB Working With Others, p.96
We find it a waste of time to keep chasing a man who cannot or will not work with you.


160.
  ... man who drinks others are involved -- the ...  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.


161.
  ... man who first uttered the prayer.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.101
We'll think now about the man who first uttered the prayer.


162.
  ... man who for several hundred years now ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.99
Its author was a man who for several hundred years now has been rated as a saint.


163.
  ... man who had experienced many years of ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
But this was a man who had experienced many years of frightful drinking, who had had most all the drunkard's experiences known to man, but who had been cured by the very means I had been trying to employ, that is to say the spiritual approach.


164.
  ... man who, having a headache, beats himself ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.23
They sound like the philosophy of the man who, having a headache, beats himself on the head with a hammer so that he can't feel the ache.


165.
  ... man who is getting over alcoholism must ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.127
We know there are difficult wives and families, but the man who is getting over alcoholism must remember he did much to make them so.


166.
  ... man who is making the approach has ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
That the man who is making the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is talking about, that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with a real answer, that he has no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that there are no fees to pay, no axes to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured -- these are the conditions we have found most effective.


167.
  ... man who is off on a spiritual ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
Nothing will help the man who is off on a spiritual tangent so much as the wife who adopts a sane spiritual program, making a better practical use of it.


168.
  ... man who is placing business or professional ...  BB The Family Afterward, pp.129-130
Though some of his manifestations are alarming and disagreeable, we think dad will be on a firmer foundation than the man who is placing business or professional success ahead of spiritual development.


169.
  ... man who is sincerely trying to grow ...  12&12 Step Six, p.63
He goes on to explain that any person capable of enough willingness and honesty to try repeatedly Step Six on all his faults -- without any reservations whatever -- has indeed come a long way spiritually, and is therefore entitled to be called a man who is sincerely trying to grow in the image and likeness of his own Creator.


170.
  ... man who is still sick.  BB A Vision For You, p.164
Ask Him in your morning meditation what you can do each day for the man who is still sick.


171.
  ... man who is unwilling to admit that ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
There is the type of man who is unwilling to admit that he cannot take a drink.


172.
  ... man who lolls in the Florida sunshine ...  BB How It Works, p.61
He is like the retired business man who lolls in the Florida sunshine in the winter complaining of the sad state of the nation; the minister who sighs over the sins of the twentieth century; politicians and reformers who are sure all would be Utopia if the rest of the world would only behave; the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and the alcoholic who has lost all and is locked up.


173.
  ... man who thought he was an atheist.  BB We Agnostics, p.55
In this book you will read the experience of a man who thought he was an atheist.


174.
  ... man who took time to pass it ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
3. Because in so doing I am paying my debt to the man who took time to pass it on to me.


175.
  ... man, who tries to run his life ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.103
The A.A., or indeed any man, who tries to run his life rigidly by this kind of prayer, by this self-serving demand of God for replies, is a particularly disconcerting individual.


176.
  ... man whose experience closely tallied with his ...  BB A Vision For You, p.160
Impressed by those who visited him at the hospital, he capitulated entirely when, later, in an upper room of this house, he heard the story of some man whose experience closely tallied with his own.


177.
  ... man will fare better if placed in ...  BB To Employers, p.143
Your man will fare better if placed in such physical condition that he can think straight and no longer craves liquor.


178.
  ... man will take, as a rule, one ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.125
At the beginning of recovery a man will take, as a rule, one of two directions.


179.
  ... man with a better position.  BB To Employers, p.146
An alcoholic who has recovered, but holds a relatively unimportant job, can talk to a man with a better position.


180.
  ... man with a real answer, that he ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
That the man who is making the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is talking about, that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with a real answer, that he has no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that there are no fees to pay, no axes to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured -- these are the conditions we have found most effective.


181.
  ... man with the double stigma knocked for ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.143
Not long after the man with the double stigma knocked for admission, A.A.'s other group received into its membership a salesman we shall call Ed.


182.
  ... man with this book in your hand.  BB A Vision For You, pp.162-163
And so can you, though you be but one man with this book in your hand.


183.
  ... man, woman, and child, is the fundamental ...  BB We Agnostics, p.55
Actually we were fooling ourselves, for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God.


184.
  ... man would be crazy, wouldn't he?  BB More About Alcoholism, p.38
Such a man would be crazy, wouldn't he?


185.
  ... man, yet dazed from his hospital experience, ...  BB A Vision For You, p.160
Many a man, yet dazed from his hospital experience, has stepped over the threshold of that home into freedom.


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