From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
REQUIRE occurs
8 times
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1.
... require a complete willingness to make amends ...
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
But all of them do
require a
complete willingness
to make
amends as
fast and
as far as may be
possible in a
given set of
conditions.
2.
... require a transformation of thought and attitude.
BB p.143,
To Employers
To get over
drinking will
require a
transformation
of
thought and
attitude.
3.
... require action; they required only acceptance.
12&12 p.34,
Step Three
These
conclusions did not
require action; they
required only
acceptance.
4.
... require all you've got.
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
No one ought to say the
A.A. program requires no
willpower; here is one place you may
require all you've got.
5.
... require much property or administration, ought to ...
12&12 p.190,
Tradition Six (Long)
6.
... require much property or administration, ought to ...
BB p.564(566),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
7.
... require small sums of money which we ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
These
simple services
would
require small sums of
money which we could and
would
pay ourselves.
8.
... require sustained and personal exertion to conform ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
All of the
Twelve Steps
require sustained and
personal exertion to
conform to their
principles and so, we
trust, to
God's will.
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and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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