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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
EFFECT occurs
19 times
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1.
... effect.
12&12 p.18,
Foreword
But it was by no
means sure
that such
great numbers of
yet erratic people could
live and
work together with
harmony and
good effect.
2.
... effect.
BB p.125,
The Family Afterward
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.
3.
... effect.
BB xxxi(xxix),
The Doctor's Opinion
His
alcoholic problem
was so
complex, and his
depression so
great, that
we
felt his only
hope would be
through what we then called "
moral psychology," and we
doubted if even that would have any
effect.
4.
... effect a
contact with Him.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
Our
own conception,
however
inadequate, was
sufficient to make the
approach and to
effect a
contact with Him.
5.
... effect alcohol
has upon them.
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
Then there are
types entirely normal in every
respect except in the
effect alcohol has upon them.
6.
... effect, been
raised from the dead, suddenly ...
BB p.11,
Bill's Story
Then he had, in
effect, been
raised from the
dead,
suddenly taken from the
scrap heap to a
level of
life better than the
best he had
ever
known!
7.
... effect everywhere,
nobody could have possibly joined ...
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
If all those
rules had been in
effect everywhere,
nobody could have
possibly
joined A.A. at all, so
great was the
sum of our
anxiety and
fear.
8.
... effect on
a man's family is sure ...
BB p.99,
Working With Others
If
persisted in for a few
months, the
effect on a
man's
family is
sure to be
great.
9.
... effect on
him, too.
12&12 p.166,
Tradition Eight
When an
A.A. talks for
money, whether at a
meeting
or to a
single newcomer,
it can have a very
bad effect
on him, too.
10.
... effect, our
A.A.
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Nine (Long)
The
trustees of the
General Service Board are, in
effect, our
A.A.
11.
... effect, our
A.A. General Service Committee.
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
12.
... effect our
first conscious relation with God ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
13.
... effect produced
by alcohol.
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
Men and
women drink essentially because
they like the
effect produced by
alcohol.
14.
... effect, sometimes
a very great one, was ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
This was only a
beginning, though if
honestly and
humbly made,
an
effect, sometimes a very
great one, was
felt at once.
15.
... effect that
an alcoholic mentality, such as ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
16.
... effect that
experience is the thing of ...
BB p.124,
The Family Afterward
Henry Ford once made a
wise remark to the
effect that
experience is the
thing of
supreme value in
life.
17.
... effect that
the doctor agreed to a ...
BB p.163,
A Vision For You
And with such
good effect that
the
doctor agreed to a
test among his
patients and
certain other
alcoholics from a
clinic
which he
attends.
18.
... effect unless
at once followed by a ...
BB p.64,
How It Works
Though our
decision was a
vital and
crucial step, it could have
little permanent effect unless at once
followed by
a
strenuous effort to
face, and to be
rid of, the
things in ourselves which had been
blocking us.
19.
... effect was
electric.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
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