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

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QUITE   occurs   47 times 18 in BB  •  29 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... quite a different matter.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
But when it comes to A.A. as a whole, that's quite a different matter.


2.
  ... quite a lot superior?  12&12 Step Six, p.66
Who, for example, doesn't like to feel just a little superior to the next fellow, or even quite a lot superior?


3.
  Quite a while later, Ed got a ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.144
Quite a while later, Ed got a sales job which took him out of town.


4.
  ... quite alike, so each of us, when ...  12&12 Step Four, p.48
Human beings are never quite alike, so each of us, when making an inventory, will need to determine what his individual character defects are.


5.
  ... quite annoyed if there is talk about ...  12&12 Step Four, p.48
Some will become quite annoyed if there is talk about immorality, let alone sin.


6.
  ... quite another problem.  12&12 Step Four, p.46
The sponsors of those who feel they need no inventory are confronted with quite another problem.


7.
  ... quite another view of this absolute humiliation.  12&12 Step One, p.21
But upon entering A.A. we soon take quite another view of this absolute humiliation.


8.
  ... quite as abnormal as his mind.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
In this statement he confirms what we who have suffered alcoholic torture must believe -- that the body of the alcoholic is quite as abnormal as his mind.


9.
  ... quite as careful when we begin to ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.91
We must be quite as careful when we begin to achieve some measure of importance and material success.


10.
  ... quite as damaging.  12&12 Step Eight, p.81
Let us think of some of the subtler ones which can sometimes be quite as damaging.


11.
  ... quite as important -- other people.  12&12 Step Nine, p.86
Or -- quite as important -- other people.


12.
  "Quite as important was the discovery that ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.42
"Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems.


13.
  ... quite as much from our voluntary reaching ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
It could come quite as much from our voluntary reaching for it as it could from unremitting suffering.


14.
  ... quite as much to women.  BB To Wives, p.104
But what we have said applies quite as much to women.


15.
  ... quite as unhealthy as the demands which ...  12&12 Step Four, p.44
Demands made upon other people for too much attention, protection, and love can only invite domination or revulsion in the protectors themselves -- two emotions quite as unhealthy as the demands which evoked them.


16.
  ... quite belong.  12&12 Step Five, p.57
Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didn't quite belong.


17.
  Quite characteristically, we had gone all out ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.71
Quite characteristically, we had gone all out in confusing the ends with the means.


18.
  ... quite far off the beam.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
Without necessarily taking that first drink, we often get quite far off the beam.


19.
  ... quite forgotten, damaging emotional conflicts persist below ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.79
Very deep, sometimes quite forgotten, damaging emotional conflicts persist below the level of consciousness.


20.
  ... quite hopeful of a situation like this.  BB To Wives, p.110
You can be quite hopeful of a situation like this.


21.
  ... quite hopeless, but that is not so.  BB To Wives, p.113
You would suppose that men in the fourth classification would be quite hopeless, but that is not so.


22.
  ... quite impossible.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.121
And these were fears which would make a serene and useful existence, at any financial level, quite impossible.


23.
  ... quite in earnest.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.144
They quickly sensed that he was quite in earnest.


24.
  ... quite in sympathy with the approach we ...  BB To Employers, p.144
Perhaps you are not quite in sympathy with the approach we suggest.


25.
  ... quite incapable.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.107
He finds himself in possession of a degree of honesty, tolerance, unselfishness, peace of mind, and love of which he had thought himself quite incapable.


26.
  ... quite indifferent to the many so long ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.92
Most of us must admit that we have loved but a few; that we have been quite indifferent to the many so long as none of them gave us trouble; and as for the remainder -- well, we have really disliked or hated them.


27.
  ... quite noncontroversial, of course.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.147
Beginning on the ground floor there would be a club; in the second story they would sober up drunks and hand them currency for their back debts; the third deck would house an educational project -- quite noncontroversial, of course.


28.
  ... quite objectionable.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.96
To certain newcomers and to those one-time agnostics who still cling to the A.A. group as their higher power, claims for the power of prayer may, despite all the logic and experience in proof of it, still be unconvincing or quite objectionable.


29.
  Quite often friends of the newcomer are ...  BB Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.567
Quite often friends of the newcomer are aware of the difference long before he is himself.


30.
  Quite often, however, the thoughts that seem ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.103
Quite often, however, the thoughts that seem to come from God are not answers at all.


31.
  ... quite optional so long as we expressed ...  BB How It Works, p.63
The wording was, of course, quite optional so long as we expressed the idea, voicing it without reservation.


32.
  ... quite plainly, as I was piously trying ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
"I heard all this quite plainly, as I was piously trying to convert a newcomer who sat next to me.


33.
  ... quite quickly.  12&12 Step Five, pp.59-60
Though we may at first be startled to realize that God knows all about us, we are apt to get used to that quite quickly.


34.
  ... quite rational and well-balanced with respect to ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.26
He seemed quite rational and well-balanced with respect to other problems.


35.
  ... quite safe.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
With the passing of the Eighteenth Amendment I felt quite safe.


36.
  ... quite shaky.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.40
This time he was quite shaky.


37.
  ... quite similar social, ethnic, and economic backgrounds.  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.


38.
  ... quite step ashore.  BB We Agnostics, p.53
But somehow, we couldn't quite step ashore.


39.
  ... quite sure of many things which, so ...  BB To Employers, p.139
Drinking occasionally, and understanding your own reactions, it is possible for you to become quite sure of many things which, so far as the alcoholic is concerned, are not always so.


40.
  ... quite sure to drink.  BB How It Works, p.70
If we are not sorry, and our conduct continues to harm others, we are quite sure to drink.


41.
  ... quite unable to see that our unreasonable ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.115
We blamed them, being quite unable to see that our unreasonable demands had been the cause.


42.
  ... quite unconscious of this, the result always ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.115
Though we were sometimes quite unconscious of this, the result always had been the same.


43.
  ... quite unfit for work.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
Occasionally, I would yield to the morning craving, but if I did, it would be only a few hours before I would be quite unfit for work.


44.
  ... quite virtuous.  BB How It Works, p.61
In trying to make these arrangements our actor may sometimes be quite virtuous.


45.
  ... quite willing to reveal the very worst, ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.84
While we may be quite willing to reveal the very worst, we must be sure to remember that we cannot buy our own peace of mind at the expense of others.


46.
  ... quite wrong.  BB How It Works, pp.65-66
The first thing apparent was that this world and its people were often quite wrong.


47.
  ... quite young, a number of eminent psychologists ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.122
When A.A. was quite young, a number of eminent psychologists and doctors made an exhaustive study of a good-sized group of so-called problem drinkers.


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