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

pressing
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PRESTIGE   occurs   9 times 2 in BB  •  7 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
presumption
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1.
  ... prestige?  BB Foreword to Second Edition, pp.xviii-xix
Would there be strivings for power and prestige?


2.
  ... prestige, and entrenched power which necessarily tempt ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.175
A.A. has to function, but at the same time it must avoid those dangers of great wealth, prestige, and entrenched power which necessarily tempt other societies.


3.
  ... prestige and power, for romance, and for ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.114
Our desires for emotional security and wealth, for personal prestige and power, for romance, and for family satisfactions -- all these have to be tempered and redirected.


4.
  ... prestige, and romance.  12&12 Step Seven, p.71
For thousands of years we have been demanding more than our share of security, prestige, and romance.


5.
  ... prestige becomes uncontrollable, whether in the sewing ...  12&12 Step Four, p.44
When an individual's desire for prestige becomes uncontrollable, whether in the sewing circle or at the international conference table, other people suffer and often revolt.


6.
  ... prestige divert us from our primary purpose.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.562
Six -- An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.


7.
  ... prestige divert us from our primary purpose."  12&12 Contents (Tradition Six), p.11
Tradition Six -- "An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose."


8.
  ... prestige divert us from our primary purpose."  12&12 Tradition Six, p.155
"An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose."


9.
  ... prestige was tearing humanity apart as never ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.130
The struggle for wealth, power, and prestige was tearing humanity apart as never before.


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