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1.
  ... found.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
We told him what we knew of alcoholism and the answer we had found.


2.
  ... found.  BB We Agnostics, p.55
In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found.


3.
  ... found a happy solution.  BB To Wives, p.104
Among us are wives, relatives and friends whose problem has been solved, as well as some who have not yet found a happy solution.


4.
  ... found a job; then lost it as ...  BB Bill's Story, p.4
I found a job; then lost it as the result of a brawl with a taxi driver.


5.
  ... found a key to sobriety.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.151
The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety.


6.
  ... found a peace of mind which can ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.104
And they have increasingly found a peace of mind which can stand firm in the face of difficult circumstances.


7.
  ... found a way up and out, and ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.125
We have been talking about problems because we are problem people who have found a way up and out, and who wish to share our knowledge of that way with all who can use it.


8.
  ... found, can happen to anybody who tries.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.97
And that, we have found, can happen to anybody who tries.


9.
  ... found confidence and comfort in the laughter ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
We can be the ones who take on the unspectacular but important tasks that make good Twelfth Step work possible, perhaps arranging for the coffee and cake after the meetings, where so many skeptical, suspicious newcomers have found confidence and comfort in the laughter and talk.


10.
  ... found, did open the channel so that ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.109
The persistent use of meditation and prayer, we found, did open the channel so that where there had been a trickle, there now was a river which led to sure power and safe guidance from God as we were increasingly better able to understand Him.


11.
  ... found Friend take them away, root and ...  BB Bill's Story, p.13
I ruthlessly faced my sins and became willing to have my new-found Friend take them away, root and branch.


12.
  ... found further on in this book.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
Some of the recommendations of A.A.'s early medical and religious friends will be found further on in this book.


13.
  ... found God -- and in finding God had ...  BB A Vision For You, p.158
But he had found God -- and in finding God had found himself.


14.
  ... found happiness, there will be ups and ...  BB To Wives, p.117
In spite of your new-found happiness, there will be ups and downs.


15.
  ... found he could not.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.32
Then, gathering all his forces, he attempted to stop altogether and found he could not.


16.
  ... found he could talk easily about A.A. ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.186
When opportunities to be helpful came along, he found he could talk easily about A.A. to almost anyone.


17.
  ... found he was just where he had ...  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.


18.
  ... found himself.  BB A Vision For You, p.158
But he had found God -- and in finding God had found himself.


19.
  ... found himself drunk half a dozen times ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
To his consternation, he found himself drunk half a dozen times in rapid succession.


20.
  ... found himself in a strange place, discredited ...  BB A Vision For You, p.154
Bitterly discouraged, he found himself in a strange place, discredited and almost broke.


21.
  ... found himself surprisingly well received, and learned ...  BB A Vision For You, p.156
He found himself surprisingly well received, and learned that many knew of his drinking.


22.
  ... found himself when he had the extraordinary ...  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.


23.
  ... found his own reward, whether his brother ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.109
And then he discovers that by the divine paradox of this kind of giving he has found his own reward, whether his brother has yet received anything or not.


24.
  ... found in A.A.  12&12 Contents (Step Two), p.5
Lost faith found in A.A.


25.
  ... found in each of the United States ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xv
Groups are to be found in each of the United States and all of the provinces of Canada.


26.
  ... found in giving themselves for others.  BB A Vision For You, p.159
It was transcended by the happiness they found in giving themselves for others.


27.
  ... found in just trying to be a ...  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.


28.
  ... found in that bitter morass of self-pity.  BB Bill's Story, p.8
No words can tell of the loneliness and despair I found in that bitter morass of self-pity.


29.
  ... found it imperative to remove the A.A. ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.157
Even inside A.A. we found it imperative to remove the A.A. name from clubs and Twelfth Step houses.


30.
  ... found it impossible.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.34
Yet we found it impossible.


31.
  ... found it necessary to post only two ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.147
In charting this enormous expanse of freedom, we found it necessary to post only two storm signals: A group ought not do anything which would greatly injure A.A. as a whole, nor ought it affiliate itself with anything or anybody else.


32.
  ... found it so.  12&12 Step Two, p.26
At least I've found it so.


33.
  ... found it sometimes impossible to persuade an ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
Highly competent psychiatrists who have dealt with us have found it sometimes impossible to persuade an alcoholic to discuss his situation without reserve.


34.
  ... found it very desirable to take this ...  BB How It Works, p.63
We found it very desirable to take this spiritual step with an understanding person, such as our wife, best friend, or spiritual adviser.


35.
  ... found it wanting.  12&12 Step Two, p.28
Sometimes A.A. comes harder to those who have lost or rejected faith than to those who never had any faith at all, for they think they have tried faith and found it wanting.


36.
  ... found little work.  BB Bill's Story, p.15
It was fortunate, for my old business associates remained skeptical for a year and a half, during which I found little work.


37.
  ... found Lois cooking as usual, while three ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.137
Arriving home, I found Lois cooking as usual, while three drunks looked hungrily on from the kitchen door.


38.
  ... found many in A.A. who once thought ...  12&12 Step Two, p.30
We found many in A.A. who once thought as we did.


39.
  ... found me and I would go home ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
But my friends usually found me and I would go home if they promised that I should not be scolded.


40.
  ... found me drinking both gin and sedative.  BB Bill's Story, p.7
Next day found me drinking both gin and sedative.


41.
  ... found most effective.  BB There Is A Solution, pp.18-19
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.


42.
  ... found much of heaven and we have ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.25
We have found much of heaven and we have been rocketed into a fourth dimension of existence of which we had not even dreamed.


43.
  ... found no answer may begin to find ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xxi
Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as yet found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.


44.
  ... found no great difficulty in casting aside ...  BB We Agnostics, p.48
Though some of us resisted, we found no great difficulty in casting aside such feelings.


45.
  ... found nothing incompatible between a powerful spiritual ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
We have found nothing incompatible between a powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.


46.
  ... found nothing which has contributed more to ...  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.


47.
  ... found, or be sunk.  BB A Vision For You, p.158
So, you see, there were three alcoholics in that town, who now felt they had to give to others what they had found, or be sunk.


48.
  ... found ourselves accepting many things which then ...  BB We Agnostics, p.47
Afterward, we found ourselves accepting many things which then seemed entirely out of reach.


49.
  ... found ourselves alone in the world, we ...  12&12 Step Twelve, pp.116-117
Even when our fortunes had not ebbed that much and we nevertheless found ourselves alone in the world, we still vainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy kind of domination or dependence.


50.
  ... found ourselves handicapped by obstinacy, sensitiveness, and ...  BB We Agnostics, pp.47-48
Besides a seeming inability to accept much on faith, we often found ourselves handicapped by obstinacy, sensitiveness, and unreasoning prejudice.


51.
  ... found ourselves thinking, when enchanted by a ...  BB We Agnostics, p.46
Yet, in other moments, we found ourselves thinking, when enchanted by a starlit night, "Who, then, made all this?"


52.
  ... found out about alcoholism.  BB To Wives, p.112
Show him your copy of this book and tell him what you have found out about alcoholism.


53.
  ... found out later that my wife inspected ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
I found out later that my wife inspected it frequently.


54.
  ... found out right away.  BB To Wives, p.120
If not, it had better be found out right away.


55.
  ... found something brand new in life.  BB A Vision For You, p.159
These men had found something brand new in life.


56.
  ... found something called a spiritual awakening.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
Our Twelfth Step also says that as a result of practicing all the Steps, we have each found something called a spiritual awakening.


57.
  ... found strength not ordinarily their own.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.104
All those who have persisted have found strength not ordinarily their own.


58.
  ... found that a new power, peace, happiness, ...  BB We Agnostics, p.50
In the face of collapse and despair, in the face of the total failure of their human resources, they found that a new power, peace, happiness, and sense of direction flowed into them.


59.
  ... found that as soon as we were ...  BB We Agnostics, p.46
We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which is God.


60.
  ... found that dependence upon His perfect justice, ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.116
We found that dependence upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that it would work where nothing else would.


61.
  ... found that freedom from fear was more ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.122
We found that freedom from fear was more important than freedom from want.


62.
  ... found that God does not make too ...  BB We Agnostics, p.46
We found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him.


63.
  ... found that he can make little headway ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.77
Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey of the human wreckage he has left in his wake.


64.
  ... found that it is fatal.  BB How It Works, p.66
We found that it is fatal.


65.
  ... found that justified anger ought to be ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.90
We have found that justified anger ought to be left to those better qualified to handle it.


66.
  ... found that, like everybody else, we were ...  BB To Wives, p.116
We wives found that, like everybody else, we were afflicted with pride, self-pity, vanity and all the things which go to make up the self-centered person; and we were not above selfishness or dishonesty.


67.
  ... found that our self-esteem, our pocketbooks, our ...  BB How It Works, p.64
In most cases it was found that our self-esteem, our pocketbooks, our ambitions, our personal relationships (including sex) were hurt or threatened.


68.
  ... found that people were attracted to us ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.116
When we persistently did this we gradually found that people were attracted to us as never before.


69.
  ... found that some drunks yearned for education, ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
It was found that some drunks yearned for education, but doubted if they were alcoholics.


70.
  ... found that such codes and philosophies did ...  BB We Agnostics, p.45
But we found that such codes and philosophies did not save us, no matter how much we tried.


71.
  ... found that the actual good results of ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.104
In A.A. we have found that the actual good results of prayer are beyond question.


72.
  ... found that the faith which really works ...  12&12 Step Four, p.43
Without a searching and fearless moral inventory, most of us have found that the faith which really works in daily living is still out of reach.


73.
  ... found that the place probably contained more ...  BB A Vision For You, p.163
He had lived there but a few weeks when he found that the place probably contained more alcoholics per square mile than any city in the country.


74.
  ... found that we can take our big ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.114
Like most people, we have found that we can take our big lumps as they come.


75.
  ... found that we could not wish or ...  12&12 Step Five, p.58
And we soon found that we could not wish or will them away by ourselves.


76.
  ... found that we couldn't to our entire ...  12&12 Step Four, p.47
We thought "conditions" drove us to drink, and when we tried to correct these conditions and found that we couldn't to our entire satisfaction, our drinking went out of hand and we became alcoholics.


77.
  ... found that we had to rely upon ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.181
We found that we had to rely upon the principle of attraction rather than of promotion.


78.
  ... found that we were totally unable to ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.107
Step One showed us an amazing paradox: We found that we were totally unable to be rid of the alcohol obsession until we first admitted that we were powerless over it.


79.
  ... found that when all other measures failed, ...  BB Bill's Story, p.15
This sometimes nearly drove me back to drink, but I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic would save the day.


80.
  ... found that with the help of A.A.'s ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.121
But as time passed we found that with the help of A.A.'s Twelve Steps we could lose those fears, no matter what our material prospects were.


81.
  ... found the Great Reality deep down within ...  BB We Agnostics, p.55
We found the Great Reality deep down within us.


82.
  ... found the master of the house and ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.144
Daylight found the master of the house and another friend drinking their morning coffee.


83.
  ... found the person, it frequently takes great ...  12&12 Step Five, p.61
Even when you've found the person, it frequently takes great resolution to approach him or her.


84.
  ... found the prospect more receptive.  BB A Vision For You, p.158
Next day found the prospect more receptive.


85.
  ... found the rest of the answer.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.178
Had they been left to themselves, and had they stuck to their one goal, they might have found the rest of the answer.


86.
  ... found the riddle's answer.  12&12 Step Two, p.32
There are too many of us who have been just like him, and have found the riddle's answer.


87.
  ... found the shoes that fit, he ought ...  12&12 Step Four, p.48
Having found the shoes that fit, he ought to step into them and walk with new confidence that he is at last on the right track.


88.
  ... found themselves, and have discovered the joy ...  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.


89.
  ... found themselves as helpless as those who ...  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.


90.
  ... found themselves saved from death, but still ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.131
Like us, they had suddenly found themselves saved from death, but still floating upon a perilous sea.


91.
  ... found they cannot break it, once having ...  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.


92.
  ... found they could do no more than ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.173
But long ago, trustees and staff members alike found they could do no more than make suggestions, and very mild ones at that.


93.
  ... found this practice beneficial.  BB The Family Afterward, p.134
Many of us have noticed a tendency to eat sweets and have found this practice beneficial.


94.
  ... found this solution, who is properly armed ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution, who is properly armed with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confidence of another alcoholic in a few hours.


95.
  ... found this the best course to take.  BB Into Action, p.81
Though there may be justifiable exceptions, and though we wish to lay down no rule of any sort, we have often found this the best course to take.


96.
  ... found to be no permanent brain injury.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
Following the elimination of alcohol, there was found to be no permanent brain injury.


97.
  ... found, to the astonishment of everyone, that ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xviii
New groups started up and it was found, to the astonishment of everyone, that A.A.'s message could be transmitted in the mail as well as by word of mouth.


98.
  ... found, too, that unless they develop much ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
Nearly all A.A.'s have found, too, that unless they develop much more of this precious quality than may be required just for sobriety, they still haven't much chance of becoming truly happy.


99.
  ... found, too, that we had been worshippers.  BB We Agnostics, p.54
We found, too, that we had been worshippers.


100.
  ... found under the listing "A.A." or "Alcoholics ...  BB Appendix VI, How to Get in Touch With A.A., p.573
These so-called intergroup associations are found under the listing "A.A." or "Alcoholics Anonymous" in telephone directories.


101.
  ... found we could live at peace with ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.122
When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too.


102.
  ... found we could not place money first.  BB The Family Afterward, p.127
Although financial recovery is on the way for many of us, we found we could not place money first.


103.
  ... found we had been only superficial.  12&12 Step Two, p.32
We supposed we had been serious about religious practices when, upon honest appraisal, we found we had been only superficial.


104.
  ... found which oppose the grace of God.  12&12 Step Six, p.66
No matter how far we have progressed, desires will always be found which oppose the grace of God.


105.
  ... found, will pay -- and pay handsomely.  12&12 Step Eight, p.80
Thoroughness, we have found, will pay -- and pay handsomely.


106.
  ... found wisdom beyond their usual capability.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.104
They have found wisdom beyond their usual capability.


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