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1.
  ... men.  BB Bill's Story, p.16
Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.


2.
  ... men.  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.


3.
  ... men.  BB There Is A Solution, p.28
We, in our turn, sought the same escape with all the desperation of drowning men.


4.
  ... men.  BB More About Alcoholism, pp.30-31
Neither does there appear to be any kind of treatment which will make alcoholics of our kind like other men.


5.
  ... men.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.32
Then he fell victim to a belief which practically every alcoholic has -- that his long period of sobriety and self-discipline had qualified him to drink as other men.


6.
  ... men.  BB We Agnostics, p.46
It is open, we believe, to all men.


7.
  ... men.  BB To Wives, p.104
With few exceptions, our book thus far has spoken of men.


8.
  ... men.  BB To Wives, p.105
We have had retaliatory love affairs with other men.


9.
  ... men.  BB To Wives, p.107
Sometimes we sensed dimly that we were dealing with sick men.


10.
  ... men.  BB To Employers, p.136
He has hired and fired hundreds of men.


11.
  ... men.  BB To Employers, p.136
I was at one time assistant manager of a corporation department employing sixty-six hundred men.


12.
  ... men.  BB To Employers, p.148
It will permit the rehabilitation of good men.


13.
  ... men.  BB To Employers, p.149
Of course, this chapter refers to alcoholics, sick people, deranged men.


14.
  ... men.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Six), p.11
We could not be all things to all men.


15.
  ... men (and a few women) with quite ...  BB Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiii
When the phrase "We are people who normally would not mix" (page 17 of this book) was written in 1939, it referred to a Fellowship composed largely of men (and a few women) with quite similar social, ethnic, and economic backgrounds.


16.
  ... men and reputation.  BB To Employers, p.148
Alcoholism may be causing your organization considerable damage in its waste of time, men and reputation.


17.
  ... men and their families.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
This has become the basis of a rapidly growing fellowship of these men and their families.


18.
  ... men and their families.  BB To Wives, p.119
You have been starving for his companionship, yet he spends long hours helping other men and their families.


19.
  ... men and we have done so with ...  BB To Wives, p.105
Our friends have counseled chucking the men and we have done so with finality, only to be back in a little while hoping, always hoping.


20.
  ... men and women.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
The membership had then reached about 100 men and women.


21.
  ... men and women.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
Free of marital responsibilities, they can participate in enterprises which would be denied to family men and women.


22.
  ... men and women, and to all these ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.171
To 1950, the year of his death, he carried the A.A. message to more than 5,000 alcoholic men and women, and to all these he gave his medical services without thought of charge.


23.
  ... men and women are strikingly agreed.  BB We Agnostics, p.50
On one proposition, however, these men and women are strikingly agreed.


24.
  ... men and women, desperately in need, will ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.29
Our hope is that many alcoholic men and women, desperately in need, will see these pages, and we believe that it is only by fully disclosing ourselves and our problems that they will be persuaded to say, "Yes, I am one of them too; I must have this thing."


25.
  ... men and women didn't exert themselves to ...  12&12 Step Four, p.42
If men and women didn't exert themselves to be secure in their persons, made no effort to harvest food or construct shelter, there would be no survival.


26.
  Men and women drink essentially because they ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol.


27.
  ... men and women ever had a more ...  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.


28.
  ... men and women, happy in their release, ...  BB A Vision For You, p.159
Seeing much of each other, scarce an evening passed that someone's home did not shelter a little gathering of men and women, happy in their release, and constantly thinking how they might present their discovery to some newcomer.


29.
  ... men and women of all religions have ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.99
We won't have far to seek; the great men and women of all religions have left us a wonderful supply.


30.
  ... men and women of the press have ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.181
On almost every newsfront, the men and women of the press have attached themselves to us as friends.


31.
  ... men and women, of whatever description, is ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.77
Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure.


32.
  ... men and women open with wonder as ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled, to see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in full citizenship, and above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance of what we receive as we carry A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.


33.
  ... men and women pour so much alcohol ...  12&12 Step Six, p.64
When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unnatural act.


34.
  ... men and women spared from alcohol's final ...  12&12 Step Two, p.31
In A.A. we saw the fruits of this belief: men and women spared from alcohol's final catastrophe.


35.
  ... men and women speak love with their ...  12&12 Step Six, p.67
But how many men and women speak love with their lips, and believe what they say, so that they can hide lust in a dark corner of their minds?


36.
  ... men and women to recovery, there exists ...  BB Preface, p.xi
Because this book has become the basic text for our Society and has helped such large numbers of alcoholic men and women to recovery, there exists strong sentiment against any radical changes being made in it.


37.
  ... men and women who are banded together ...  12&12 Foreword, p.15
Alcoholics Anonymous is a worldwide fellowship of more than one hundred thousand(*) alcoholic men and women who are banded together to solve their common problems and to help fellow sufferers in recovery from that age-old, baffling malady, alcoholism.


38.
  ... men and women who are constitutionally incapable ...  BB How It Works, p.58
Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.


39.
  ... men and women who go power-mad, who ...  12&12 Step Four, p.43
We have also seen men and women who go power-mad, who devote themselves to attempting to rule their fellows.


40.
  ... men and women who have lost the ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.30
We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control our drinking.


41.
  ... men and women who have recovered from ...  BB Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.


42.
  ... men and women who were once just ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.17
We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, know thousands of men and women who were once just as hopeless as Bill.


43.
  ... men and women who would be hopelessly ...  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
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."


44.
  ... men and women, worldly indeed.  BB We Agnostics, p.50
Here are thousands of men and women, worldly indeed.


45.
  ... men are better husbands and fathers than ...  BB To Wives, p.108
Today most of our men are better husbands and fathers than ever before.


46.
  ... men are gathered together in business there ...  BB To Employers, p.145
Wherever men are gathered together in business there will be rivalries and, arising out of these, a certain amount of office politics.


47.
  ... men are suddenly cast to one side, ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.27
Ideas, emotions, and attitudes which were once the guiding forces of the lives of these men are suddenly cast to one side, and a completely new set of conceptions and motives begin to dominate them.


48.
  ... men are thoroughly bad-intentioned, that no amount ...  BB To Wives, p.108
We realize some men are thoroughly bad-intentioned, that no amount of patience will make any difference.


49.
  ... men are to become happy, respected, and ...  BB A Vision For You, p.153
It may seem incredible that these men are to become happy, respected, and useful once more.


50.
  ... men as we did not!  BB To Wives, p.106
How heartbreaking was this discovery; how cruel to be told they understood our men as we did not!


51.
  ... men as we have come to know ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvii
The unselfishness of these men as we have come to know them, the entire absence of profit motive, and their community spirit, is indeed inspiring to one who has labored long and wearily in this alcoholic field.


52.
  ... men, but for alcoholics these things are ...  BB How It Works, p.66
They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison.


53.
  ... men cannot or will not get over ...  BB To Wives, p.114
Some men cannot or will not get over alcoholism.


54.
  ... men cared nothing for the society of ...  12&12 Step Four, p.42
If there were no social instinct, if men cared nothing for the society of one another, there would be no society.


55.
  ... men come out of asylums and resume ...  BB Bill's Story, p.15
I have seen men come out of asylums and resume a vital place in the lives of their families and communities.


56.
  ... men drink their heads off.  BB To Employers, p.138
I pointed out that I had had nothing to drink whatever for three years, and this in the face of difficulties that would have made nine out of ten men drink their heads off.


57.
  ... men, even our enemies, for we look ...  BB How It Works, p.70
We have begun to learn tolerance, patience and good will toward all men, even our enemies, for we look on them as sick people.


58.
  ... men everywhere.  BB To Employers, p.136
His present views ought to prove exceptionally useful to business men everywhere.


59.
  ... men failed.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.40
I reasoned I was not so far advanced as most of you fellows, that I had been usually successful in licking my other personal problems, and that I would therefore be successful where you men failed.


60.
  ... men from the boys."  12&12 Step Six, p.63
"This is the Step that separates the men from the boys."


61.
  ... men's gathering places of all sorts, often ...  BB A Vision For You, p.158
He entered a political campaign, making speeches, frequenting men's gathering places of all sorts, often staying up all night.


62.
  ... men get well whose families have not ...  BB Working With Others, p.100
We have seen men get well whose families have not returned at all.


63.
  ... men gradually, but His impact on me ...  BB Bill's Story, p.14
God comes to most men gradually, but His impact on me was sudden and profound.


64.
  ... men had appeared in court, persuading the ...  BB Bill's Story, p.9
In a matter of fact way he told how two men had appeared in court, persuading the judge to suspend his commitment.


65.
  ... men had found something brand new in ...  BB A Vision For You, p.159
These men had found something brand new in life.


66.
  ... men had hit upon a cure, once ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.150
But once these men had hit upon a cure, once it became apparent that only by their united effort could this be accomplished, then all of them would feel bound to devote themselves solely to the relief of cancer.


67.
  ... men had spectacular and powerful recoveries.  BB To Wives, p.113
Yet often such men had spectacular and powerful recoveries.


68.
  ... men had the nerve to say that ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.123
These distinguished men had the nerve to say that most of the alcoholics under investigation were still childish, emotionally sensitive, and grandiose.


69.
  ... men have been so impaired by alcohol ...  BB To Wives, p.114
Some men have been so impaired by alcohol that they cannot stop.


70.
  ... men have begotten all sorts of predicaments.  BB To Wives, p.105
Our loyalty and the desire that our husbands hold up their heads and be like other men have begotten all sorts of predicaments.


71.
  Men have cried out to me in ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: "Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I must stop, but I cannot! You must help me!"


72.
  ... men have discovered God.  BB There Is A Solution, p.28
The distinguished American psychologist, William James, in his book "Varieties of Religious Experience," indicates a multitude of ways in which men have discovered God.


73.
  ... men have regained their standing.  BB Bill's Story, p.15
Business and professional men have regained their standing.


74.
  ... men have repeatedly deleted names and pictures ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.183
Since that time, editors and rewrite men have repeatedly deleted names and pictures of members from A.A. copy; frequently, they have reminded ambitious individuals of A.A.'s anonymity policy.


75.
  ... men have sworn great solemn oaths that ...  BB To Wives, p.105
Our men have sworn great solemn oaths that they were through drinking forever.


76.
  ... men, hoping matters will take a turn ...  BB To Employers, p.147
So, for one reason or another, they cover these men, hoping matters will take a turn for the better.


77.
  ... men if they try our suggestions.  BB To Wives, p.104
There is every evidence that women regain their health as readily as men if they try our suggestions.


78.
  ... men in charge of the alcoholic problem ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.167
Even greater furors were provoked when A.A. members began to run rest homes and farms for alcoholics, when some hired out to corporations as personnel men in charge of the alcoholic problem in industry, when some became nurses on alcoholic wards, when others entered the field of alcohol education.


79.
  ... men in the fourth classification would be ...  BB To Wives, p.113
You would suppose that men in the fourth classification would be quite hopeless, but that is not so.


80.
  ... men in this city have found themselves, ...  BB A Vision For You, p.163
When a few men in this city have found themselves, and have discovered the joy of helping others to face life again, there will be no stopping until everyone in that town has had his opportunity to recover -- if he can and will.


81.
  ... men in those days was equal to ...  BB We Agnostics, p.51
Students of ancient history tell us that the intellect of men in those days was equal to the best of today.


82.
  ... men" is the difference between striving for ...  12&12 Step Six, p.68
So the difference between "the boys and the men" is the difference between striving for a self-determined objective and for the perfect objective which is of God.


83.
  ... men, it is by no means a ...  BB To Wives, p.120
Though it is infinitely better that he have no relapse at all, as has been true with many of our men, it is by no means a bad thing in some cases.


84.
  ... men jumping to death from the towers ...  BB Bill's Story, p.4
The papers reported men jumping to death from the towers of High Finance.


85.
  ... men later became co-founders of A.A. Bill's ...  BB A Vision For You (Note), p.155
(*) This refers to Bill's first visit with Dr. Bob. These men later became co-founders of A.A. Bill's story opens the text of this book; Dr. Bob's heads the Story Section.


86.
  ... men lost to this world because I ...  BB To Employers, p.137
Here were three exceptional men lost to this world because I did not understand alcoholism as I do now.


87.
  ... men may go without disaster, provided he ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.26
He can go anywhere on this earth where other free men may go without disaster, provided he remains willing to maintain a certain simple attitude.


88.
  ... men may well have a remedy for ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
These men may well have a remedy for thousands of such situations.


89.
  ... men's minds were fettered by superstition, tradition, ...  BB We Agnostics, p.51
In the realm of the material, men's minds were fettered by superstition, tradition, and all sorts of fixed ideas.


90.
  ... men, much like himself, have recovered.  BB To Wives, p.113
He knows that thousands of men, much like himself, have recovered.


91.
  ... men, nor should we try.  12&12 Tradition Six, p.157
We of Alcoholics Anonymous could not be all things to all men, nor should we try.


92.
  ... men of faith have courage.  BB How It Works, p.68
All men of faith have courage.


93.
  ... men of genius conceived their best projects ...  BB Bill's Story, p.2
We had long talks when I would still her forebodings by telling her that men of genius conceived their best projects when drunk; that the most majestic constructions of philosophic thought were so derived.


94.
  ... men of medicine as well as with ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
Neither does A.A. take any particular medical point of view, though we cooperate widely with the men of medicine as well as with the men of religion.


95.
  ... men of my battery given me a ...  BB Bill's Story, p.1
I fancied myself a leader, for had not the men of my battery given me a special token of appreciation?


96.
  ... men of religion.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
Neither does A.A. take any particular medical point of view, though we cooperate widely with the men of medicine as well as with the men of religion.


97.
  ... men of religion' were still killing one ...  12&12 Step Two, p.30
How we loved to shout the damaging fact that millions of the 'good men of religion' were still killing one another off in the name of God.


98.
  ... men of science have been forcing nature ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
With great intelligence, men of science have been forcing nature to disclose her secrets.


99.
  ... men of the house would appear.  BB To Wives, p.105
We seldom had friends at our homes, never knowing how or when the men of the house would appear.


100.
  ... men of thirty or less, had been ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.33
Several of our crowd, men of thirty or less, had been drinking only a few years, but they found themselves as helpless as those who had been drinking twenty years.


101.
  ... men recover, and is a power in ...  BB A Vision For You, p.158
He has helped other men recover, and is a power in the church from which he was long absent.


102.
  ... men set to work almost frantically upon ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
Hence the two men set to work almost frantically upon alcoholics arriving in the ward of the Akron City Hospital.


103.
  ... men shall be governed, and how the ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.176
We live in the imminent possibility of a fresh holocaust to determine how men shall be governed, and how the products of nature and toil shall be divided among them.


104.
  ... men, staff member of a world-renowned hospital, ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.43
One of these men, staff member of a world-renowned hospital, recently made this statement to some of us: "What you say about the general hopelessness of the average alcoholic's plight is, in my opinion, correct.


105.
  ... men suffer horribly, but not more than ...  BB To Wives, p.114
The wives and children of such men suffer horribly, but not more than the men themselves.


106.
  ... men than the altruistic movement now growing ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
We feel, after many years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.


107.
  ... men than we are using it constantly.  BB Into Action, p.85
Better men than we are using it constantly.


108.
  ... men that they have over-indulged.  BB The Family Afterward, p.134
Alcohol is so sexually stimulating to some men that they have over-indulged.


109.
  ... men, the stimulating and electric atmosphere of ...  BB A Vision For You, p.160
The expression on the faces of the women, that indefinable something in the eyes of the men, the stimulating and electric atmosphere of the place, conspired to let him know that here was haven at last.


110.
  ... men themselves.  BB To Wives, p.114
The wives and children of such men suffer horribly, but not more than the men themselves.


111.
  ... men -- they can devote themselves to any ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
In partnership with others -- women and men -- they can devote themselves to any number of ideas, people, and constructive projects.


112.
  ... men to make the supreme sacrifice rather ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
There are many situations which arise out of the phenomenon of craving which cause men to make the supreme sacrifice rather than continue to fight.


113.
  Men under them are frequently their friends.  BB To Employers, p.147
Men under them are frequently their friends.


114.
  ... men we married?  BB To Wives, p.107
Could we have been so mistaken in the men we married?


115.
  ... men, we were honest with no one ...  BB Into Action, p.73
Unwilling to be honest with these sympathetic men, we were honest with no one else.


116.
  ... men were not drinking to escape; they ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
These men were not drinking to escape; they were drinking to overcome a craving beyond their mental control.


117.
  ... men who cry for money and shelter ...  BB Working With Others, p.98
The men who cry for money and shelter before conquering alcohol, are on the wrong track.


118.
  ... men who drink too much.  BB To Wives, p.104
We want the wives of Alcoholics Anonymous to address the wives of men who drink too much.


119.
  ... men who felt the same way.  BB Bill's Story, p.12
I have since talked with scores of men who felt the same way.


120.
  ... men who had, for example, worked a ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
I have had many men who had, for example, worked a period of months on some problem or business deal which was to be settled on a certain date, favorably to them.


121.
  Men who had liquor shipped in from ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.171
Men who had liquor shipped in from Boston or New York by express were looked upon with great distrust and disfavor by most of the good townspeople.


122.
  ... men who have had experience with the ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
Convincing testimony must surely come from medical men who have had experience with the sufferings of our members and have witnessed our return to health.


123.
  ... men who have lost their legs; they ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.30
We are like men who have lost their legs; they never grow new ones.


124.
  ... men who have such experiences.  BB Bill's Story, p.14
The good doctor now sees many men who have such experiences.


125.
  ... men who loved their wives and children ...  BB To Wives, p.107
How could men who loved their wives and children be so unthinking, so callous, so cruel?


126.
  ... men who want to stop, and with ...  BB To Employers, p.141
But there are many men who want to stop, and with them you can go far.


127.
  ... men who would die because they would ...  BB A Vision For You, p.154
But what about his responsibilities -- his family and the men who would die because they would not know how to get well, ah -- yes, those other alcoholics?


128.
  ... men, whose stories I have heard, there ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.43
As to two of you men, whose stories I have heard, there is no doubt in my mind that you were 100% hopeless, apart from divine help.


129.
  ... men will have shaped their own destiny.  12&12 Step Seven, p.71
Solely by their own intelligence and labor, men will have shaped their own destiny.


130.
  ... men will try to take advantage of ...  BB To Employers, p.141
Seeing your attempt to understand and help, some men will try to take advantage of your kindness.


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