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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
SOLUTION occurs
20 times
16 in BB • 4 in 12&12
Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
What is the solution?
2.
The
tremendous fact for
every one of us is that we have
discovered a
common solution.
3.
There is a solution.
4.
If you are as
seriously alcoholic as we were, we
believe there is
no middle-of-the-
road solution.
5.
For most
cases, there is
virtually no other solution."
6.
Let the
doctor, if he
will,
tell him he has
something in the
way of a
solution.
7.
But you may
talk to him about the
hopelessness of
alcoholism because you
offer a
solution.
8.
Among us are
wives,
relatives and
friends whose problem has been
solved, as
well as some who have
not
yet found a
happy solution.
9.
In this
respect they are
certainly a
power greater than you, who have not
even come close to a
solution.
10.
11.
Escape via the
bottle was
always our
solution.
12.
Had they
fired me
first, and
had they then
taken steps to
see that I was
presented
with the
solution contained
in this
book, I might have
returned to them
six months later, a
well man.
13.
If you and your
husband find
a
solution for the
pressing
problem of
drink you are, of
course,
going to be
very happy.
14.
If he is not
interested in your
solution, if he
expects you to
act only as a
banker for his
financial difficulties
or a
nurse for his
sprees,
you may have to
drop him
until
he
changes his
mind.
15.
He
made a
beginning, we
have
seen, when he
commenced to
rely upon A.A. for the
solution of his
alcohol problem.
16.
17.
We were having
trouble with
personal relationships, we couldn't
control our
emotional natures, we were a
prey to
misery and
depression, we
couldn't
make a
living, we had
a
feeling of
uselessness, we were
full of
fear, we were
unhappy, we
couldn't
seem to be of
real help to
other people -- was not a
basic solution of these
bedevilments
more important than
whether we should
see newsreels of
lunar flight?
18.
19.
In
fact, he may
say almost anything if he has
accepted our
solution which, as
you
know,
demands rigorous honesty.
20.
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Alcoholics Anonymous, the
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions,
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