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1.
  ... just a conceited Irishman who thinks he ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.153
"'Well,' said I, 'I think you're just a conceited Irishman who thinks he can run the whole show.'


2.
  ... just a little superior to the next ...  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.
  ... just a question of taking care of ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
Some were club-minded, but it was just a question of taking care of the lonely heart.


4.
  ... just about doubled, to an estimated two ...  BB Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiii
Since the third edition was published in 1976, worldwide membership of A.A. has just about doubled, to an estimated two million or more, with nearly 100,800 groups meeting in approximately 150 countries around the world.


5.
  ... just about the extent that we stop ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.104
We discover that we do receive guidance for our lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on our terms.


6.
  ... just about the largest fact in his ...  12&12 Step Six, p.63
To him, this proposition will be no theory at all; it will be just about the largest fact in his life.


7.
  ... just about the last straw.  12&12 Step Two, p.26
This, the newcomer thinks, is just about the last straw.


8.
  ... just accumulating funds for the next spree.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
Without realizing it we were just accumulating funds for the next spree.


9.
  ... just ahead.  12&12 Step Seven, p.70
The immense resources now being harnessed promise such a quantity of material blessings that many have come to believe that a man-made millennium lies just ahead.


10.
  ... just and the unjust.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.169
Even the suggestion of such a thing never fails to whip up a hurricane, and we have discovered that hurricanes have a way of mauling with equal severity both the just and the unjust.


11.
  ... just another very sick, unreasonable person.  BB To Wives, p.108
He is just another very sick, unreasonable person.


12.
  ... just as biased and unreasonable about the ...  BB We Agnostics, p.51
We asked ourselves this: Are not some of us just as biased and unreasonable about the realm of the spirit as were the ancients about the realm of the material?


13.
  ... just as capable of endurance and valor ...  12&12 Step Three, p.38
They were just as capable of endurance and valor as any other soldiers.


14.
  ... just as disturbing to our equilibrium, because ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.73
And we cling with a passionate persistence to others which are just as disturbing to our equilibrium, because we still enjoy them too much.


15.
  ... just as far gone.  BB To Wives, p.110
Many of our husbands were just as far gone.


16.
  Just as firmly bound by obligation are ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.150
Just as firmly bound by obligation are the members of Alcoholics Anonymous, who have demonstrated that they can help problem drinkers as others seldom can.


17.
  ... just as he thought he was getting ...  BB A Vision For You, p.155
Some time later, and just as he thought he was getting control of his liquor situation, he went on a roaring bender.


18.
  ... just as hopeless as Bill.  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.


19.
  ... just as it was originally written in ...  BB Preface, p.xi
The section called "The Doctor's Opinion" has been kept intact, just as it was originally written in 1939 by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, our Society's great medical benefactor.


20.
  ... just as much as the feeling we ...  BB We Agnostics, p.55
We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend.


21.
  ... just as much to uncounted alcoholics not ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
A.A. can, of course, mean just as much to uncounted alcoholics not yet reached.


22.
  ... just as often some of us will ...  12&12 Step Four, p.48
But just as often some of us will fit more or less into both classifications.


23.
  ... just as sharply defined as the examples ...  12&12 Step Four, p.48
Often these personalities are just as sharply defined as the examples given.


24.
  ... just as soon as we become reasonably ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.83
There will be those who ought to be dealt with just as soon as we become reasonably confident that we can maintain our sobriety.


25.
  ... just as surely convinced that the group ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.135
The bleeding deacon is one who is just as surely convinced that the group cannot get along without him, who constantly connives for reelection to office, and who continues to be consumed with self-pity.


26.
  Just as the aim of each A.A. ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.175
Just as the aim of each A.A. member is personal sobriety, the aim of our services is to bring sobriety within reach of all who want it.


27.
  ... just as the program has brought recovery ...  BB Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
The basic principles of the A.A. program, it appears, hold good for individuals with many different lifestyles, just as the program has brought recovery to those of many different nationalities.


28.
  ... just as things are going beautifully he ...  BB To Wives, p.120
Perhaps your husband will make a fair start on the new basis, but just as things are going beautifully he dismays you by coming home drunk.


29.
  ... just as we did when we admitted ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.76
It is really saying to us that we now ought to be willing to try humility in seeking the removal of our other shortcomings just as we did when we admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, and came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.


30.
  ... just as we were being convinced of ...  BB To Wives, p.107
And just as we were being convinced of their heartlessness, they would surprise us with fresh resolves and new attentions.


31.
  ... just as well now, and it would ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
It should be doing just as well now, and it would -- if only you'd help me.


32.
  Just be careful not to disagree in ...  BB To Wives, p.117
Just be careful not to disagree in a resentful or critical spirit.


33.
  ... just beaten up a couple of nurses.  BB A Vision For You, p.156
He's just beaten up a couple of nurses.


34.
  ... just because he is alcoholic.  BB To Employers, p.148
It boils right down to this: No man should be fired just because he is alcoholic.


35.
  ... just because we were maladjusted to life, ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
It did not satisfy us to be told that we could not control our drinking just because we were maladjusted to life, that we were in full flight from reality, or were outright mental defectives.


36.
  ... just because your friends drink liquor.  BB Working With Others, p.102
Don't start to withdraw again just because your friends drink liquor.


37.
  ... just before going to sleep, many of ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.93
When evening comes, perhaps just before going to sleep, many of us draw up a balance sheet for the day.


38.
  ... just before he died; these recollections welled ...  BB Bill's Story, p.10
I could almost hear the sound of the preacher's voice as I sat, on still Sundays, way over there on the hillside; there was that proffered temperance pledge I never signed; my grandfather's good natured contempt of some church folk and their doings; his insistence that the spheres really had their music; but his denial of the preacher's right to tell him how he must listen; his fearlessness as he spoke of these things just before he died; these recollections welled up from the past.


39.
  ... just beginning his development.  BB To Wives, p.118
The chances are he will not for, like yourself, he is just beginning his development.


40.
  ... just comes!  BB Into Action, p.85
It just comes!


41.
  ... just didn't show up.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.167
They just didn't show up.


42.
  ... just don't believe they have it.  BB To Employers, p.149
But alcoholism -- well, they just don't believe they have it.


43.
  ... just for sobriety, they still haven't 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.


44.
  ... just getting over a spree, a certain ...  BB To Employers, p.142
For most alcoholics who are drinking, or who are just getting over a spree, a certain amount of physical treatment is desirable, even imperative.


45.
  ... just how and by what specific means ...  12&12 Step Three, p.34
Therefore our problem now becomes just how and by what specific means shall we be able to let Him in?


46.
  Just how did I react to these ...  12&12 Step Four, p.50
Just how did I react to these situations at the time?


47.
  ... "Just how do I go about this? ...  12&12 Step Four, p.50
Now willing to commence the search for his own defects, he will ask, "Just how do I go about this? How do I take inventory of myself?"


48.
  ... just how, in these circumstances, does a ...  12&12 Step Two, p.26
But just how, in these circumstances, does a fellow 'take it easy'?


49.
  ... just how their lives should be lived ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.81
What happens when we try to dominate the whole family, either by a rule of iron or by a constant outpouring of minute directions for just how their lives should be lived from hour to hour?


50.
  ... just how this campaign should be handled.  12&12 Tradition Six, p.157
In one of their trade associations, the question arose of just how this campaign should be handled.


51.
  ... just how we shall act.  12&12 Step Three, p.37
How persistently we claim the right to decide all by ourselves just what we shall think and just how we shall act.


52.
  ... just isn't so.  BB Working With Others, p.99
This just isn't so.


53.
  ... just like all other societies, we do ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.117
But just like all other societies, we do have sex and marital problems, and sometimes they are distressingly acute.


54.
  ... just like him, and have found the ...  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.


55.
  ... just like that.  BB Bill's Story, p.15
With us it is just like that.


56.
  ... just like this are heard daily.  12&12 Step Six, p.64
In A.A. meetings all over the world, statements just like this are heard daily.


57.
  ... just like yours.  12&12 Step Two, p.27
When I first looked at A.A. my reaction was just like yours.


58.
  ... just made conscious contact with God, it ...  BB Into Action, p.87
Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times.


59.
  ... just making it possible.  12&12 Tradition Eight, pp.168-169
She was not professionalizing the Twelfth Step; she was just making it possible.


60.
  ... just now taking shape in Asia.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xv
Some are just now taking shape in Asia.


61.
  ... just now tapped a source of power ...  BB A Vision For You, p.163
You forget that you have just now tapped a source of power much greater than yourself.


62.
  ... just now we've got him strapped down ...  BB A Vision For You, p.156
Understand he was once a well-known lawyer in town, but just now we've got him strapped down tight.(*)


63.
  ... just one chap on the third floor ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.151
'There's just one chap on the third floor who might be a possibility.


64.
  ... just outlined.  BB Into Action, p.88
So we let God discipline us in the simple way we have just outlined.


65.
  ... just part and parcel of learning to ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.178
They were just part and parcel of learning to work and live together.


66.
  ... just past.  12&12 Step Ten, p.89
There's the one we take at day's end, when we review the happenings of the hours just past.


67.
  ... just procrastinate, telling ourselves the time is ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.85
Or we may just procrastinate, telling ourselves the time is not yet, when in reality we have already passed up many a fine chance to right a serious wrong.


68.
  Just resign from the debating society and ...  12&12 Step Two, p.26
Just resign from the debating society and quit bothering yourself with such deep questions as whether it was the hen or the egg that came first.


69.
  ... just returned from a three-months leave of ...  BB To Employers, p.138
He has just returned from a three-months leave of absence, has taken a cure, looks fine, and to clinch the matter, the board of directors told him this was his last chance."


70.
  Just saying it over and over will ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.103
Just saying it over and over will often enable us to clear a channel choked up with anger, fear, frustration, or misunderstanding, and permit us to return to the surest help of all -- our search for God's will, not our own, in the moment of stress.


71.
  ... just so earnestly did we commence to ...  12&12 Tradition One, pp.130-131
As we had once struggled and prayed for individual recovery, just so earnestly did we commence to quest for the principles through which A.A. itself might survive.


72.
  ... just so long as we were convinced ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
For just so long as we were convinced that we could live exclusively by our own individual strength and intelligence, for just that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible.


73.
  ... just strained relations.  BB Working With Others, p.98
Now, the domestic problem: There may be divorce, separation, or just strained relations.


74.
  ... just that.  BB Bill's Story, p.5
I began to wonder, for such an appalling lack of perspective seemed near being just that.


75.
  ... just that did happen and more, for ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.42
Well, just that did happen and more, for what I had learned of alcoholism did not occur to me at all.


76.
  ... just that for many of us.  BB The Family Afterward, p.133
We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us.


77.
  ... just that long was a working faith ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
For just so long as we were convinced that we could live exclusively by our own individual strength and intelligence, for just that long was a working faith in a Higher Power impossible.


78.
  ... just, that we ought to be ambitious ...  12&12 Step Two, p.29
We were still sure that we ought to be fairly honest, tolerant, and just, that we ought to be ambitious and hardworking.


79.
  ... just the jolt he needs.  BB To Employers, p.141
It may be just the jolt he needs.


80.
  ... just the opposite.  12&12 Step Four, p.45
If, however, our natural disposition is inclined to self-righteousness or grandiosity, our reaction will be just the opposite.


81.
  Just then an old acquaintance stuck a ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.162
Just then an old acquaintance stuck a tousled and aching head in the door.


82.
  ... just then; the groups weren't sending in ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.164
The Foundation was really hard up just then; the groups weren't sending in enough for the support of the office; we had been tossing in all the book income and even that hadn't been enough.


83.
  ... just this, and nothing less: That we ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.25
The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences(*) which have revolutionized our whole attitude toward life, toward our fellows and toward God's universe.


84.
  ... just this way.  12&12 Step Two, p.27
You will find many members who have crossed the threshold just this way.


85.
  ... just thought I would get a sandwich.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.36
I just thought I would get a sandwich.


86.
  ... just to nail things down good, were ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
They understood that the elders, just to nail things down good, were about to apply to the Foundation for a charter.


87.
  Just to the extent that we do ...  BB How It Works, p.68
Just to the extent that we do as we think He would have us, and humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match calamity with serenity.


88.
  ... just trying to be a number one ...  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.


89.
  ... just underneath there is deadly earnestness.  BB Bill's Story, p.16
But just underneath there is deadly earnestness.


90.
  ... just voted a company expenditure of a ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars would appear at an A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.


91.
  ... just want to be sure that you ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.139
We just want to be sure that you get the same great chance for sobriety that we've had.


92.
  ... just wanted to tell you Paul jumped ...  BB To Employers, p.136
I still expected a plea for clemency, but these words came through the receiver: "I just wanted to tell you Paul jumped from a hotel window in Hartford last Saturday.


93.
  ... just what A.A. was all about.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.186
Consequently, many groups began to hold meetings which were open to interested friends and the public, so that the average citizen could see for himself just what A.A. was all about.


94.
  ... just what do we do?  BB How It Works, p.60
Just what do we mean by that, and just what do we do?


95.
  Just what do we mean by that, ...  BB How It Works, p.60
Just what do we mean by that, and just what do we do?


96.
  ... just what instances did my selfish pursuit ...  12&12 Step Four, p.50
When, and how, and in just what instances did my selfish pursuit of the sex relation damage other people and me?


97.
  ... just what our deeper objectives are.  12&12 Step Seven, p.76
As we approach the actual taking of Step Seven, it might be well if we A.A.'s inquire once more just what our deeper objectives are.


98.
  ... just what we shall think and just ...  12&12 Step Three, p.37
How persistently we claim the right to decide all by ourselves just what we shall think and just how we shall act.


99.
  ... just where he had left off at ...  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.


100.
  ... just where it is needed.  12&12 Step Three, p.36
Power flows just where it is needed.


101.
  ... just where the remaining Steps of the ...  12&12 Step Three, p.40
That is just where the remaining Steps of the A.A. program come in.


102.
  Just would he like to?  BB To Wives, p.112
Just would he like to?


103.
  ... just wouldn't work on alcohol.  12&12 Step Six, p.63
My own willpower just wouldn't work on alcohol.


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