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

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FORM   occurs   28 times 17 in BB  •  11 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
See also...   forms
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formation
formats

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1.
  ... form a relationship upon simple and understandable ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.28
If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we may form a relationship upon simple and understandable terms as soon as we are willing and honest enough to try.


2.
  ... form a true partnership with another human ...  12&12 Step Four, p.53
The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being.


3.
  ... form" A.A. Traditions as first printed in ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
This is a condensed version of the original "long form" A.A. Traditions as first printed in 1946.


4.
  ... form and were first published in 1946 ...  12&12 Foreword, p.18
It was out of this vast welter of explosive experience that A.A.'s Twelve Traditions took form and were first published in 1946 and later confirmed at A.A.'s First International Convention, held at Cleveland in 1950.


5.
  ... form another group more to their liking.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
Disliking the attempt of some to manage a group, half its membership might angrily rush off to form another group more to their liking.


6.
  ... form at all; and once having formed ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.


7.
  ... form at nominal cost through most A.A. ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
(This address is now available in pamphlet form at nominal cost through most A.A. groups or from Box 459, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163, under the title "Three Talks to Medical Societies by Bill W." -- formerly called "Bill on Alcoholism" and earlier "Alcoholism the Illness.")


8.
  ... form groups in other cities.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
Besides these, there were scattered alcoholics who had picked up the basic ideas in Akron or New York who were trying to form groups in other cities.


9.
  ... form groups of depressive and paranoid folks; ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.156
We'd form groups of depressive and paranoid folks; the deeper the neurosis, the better we'd like it.


10.
  ... form ideas as to what we think ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.104
We form ideas as to what we think God's will is for other people.


11.
  ... form in general use today.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
On the next page, A.A.'s "12 Traditions" are seen in their so-called "short form" the form in general use today.


12.
  ... form" is more explicit and of possible ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
Because the "long form" is more explicit and of possible historic value, it is also reproduced.


13.
  ... form of faulty dependence has caused many ...  12&12 Step Three, p.38
This very form of faulty dependence has caused many a rebellious alcoholic to conclude that dependence of any sort must be intolerably damaging.


14.
  ... form of intellectual pride which keeps you ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
If you think you are an atheist, an agnostic, a skeptic, or have any other form of intellectual pride which keeps you from accepting what is in this book, I feel sorry for you.


15.
  ... form of moral psychology was of urgent ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvii
We doctors have realized for a long time that some form of moral psychology was of urgent importance to alcoholics, but its application presented difficulties beyond our conception.


16.
  ... form of murder by character assassination, has ...  12&12 Step Six, p.67
Gossip barbed with our anger, a polite form of murder by character assassination, has its satisfactions for us, too.


17.
  ... form of respectability was our undoing, so ...  12&12 Step Two, p.30
This phony form of respectability was our undoing, so far as faith was concerned.


18.
  ... form of self-deception and experimentation, they will ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.31
By every form of self-deception and experimentation, they will try to prove themselves exceptions to the rule, therefore nonalcoholic.


19.
  ... form of society, has to be a ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.172
Therefore, every nation, in fact every form of society, has to be a government administered by human beings.


20.
  ... form" of the Concepts, which follows, was ...  BB Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.574
The "short form" of the Concepts, which follows, was prepared by the 1974 General Service Conference.


21.
  ... form of trouble and misery which has ...  BB Bill's Story, p.15
There is scarcely any form of trouble and misery which has not been overcome among us.


22.
  ... form of trouble too.  BB Into Action, p.79
That's a common form of trouble too.


23.
  ... form or another we had been living ...  BB We Agnostics, p.54
In one form or another we had been living by faith and little else.


24.
  ... form or other it is there.  BB We Agnostics, p.55
It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there.


25.
  ... form, substance, and unity.  12&12 Foreword, p.18
The Tradition section of this volume portrays in some detail the experience which finally produced the Twelve Traditions and so gave A.A. its present form, substance, and unity.


26.
  ... form" the form in general use today.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
On the next page, A.A.'s "12 Traditions" are seen in their so-called "short form" the form in general use today.


27.
  ... form, the Steps are also used by ...  12&12 Step Twelve (Note), p.118
(*) In adapted form, the Steps are also used by Al-Anon Family Groups. Not a part of A.A., this worldwide fellowship consists of spouses and other relatives or friends of alcoholics (in A.A. or still drinking). Its headquarters address is 1600 Corporate Landing Pkwy, Virginia Beach, VA 23454-5617.


28.
  ... form told us that the use of ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.133
One of the many doctors who had the opportunity of reading this book in manuscript form told us that the use of sweets was often helpful, of course depending upon a doctor's advice.


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