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


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1.
  ... start.  BB How It Works, p.58
With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start.


2.
  ... start.  BB To Employers, pp.144-145
If he feels free to discuss his problems with you, if he knows you understand and will not be upset by anything he wishes to say, he will probably be off to a fast start.


3.
  ... start.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
Never once in my life have I had a headache, which fact leads me to believe that I was an alcoholic almost from the start.


4.
  ... start.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.147
In imagination the gleaming center was to go up several stories more, but three would do for a start.


5.
  ... start and that your motive in going ...  BB Working With Others, p.102
But be sure you are on solid spiritual ground before you start and that your motive in going is thoroughly good.


6.
  ... start at the top and come through ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
Some would start at the top and come through to the bottom, becoming club members; others started in the club, pitched a binge, were hospitalized, then graduated to education on the third floor.


7.
  ... start drinking again.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
The broker had gone to Akron on a business venture which had collapsed, leaving him greatly in fear that he might start drinking again.


8.
  ... start drinking again, and all would be ...  BB Into Action, p.80
He saw that he had to place the outcome in God's hands or he would soon start drinking again, and all would be lost anyhow.


9.
  ... start drinking without developing the phenomenon of ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
All these, and many others, have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving.


10.
  ... start easily and will soon become eager.  12&12 Step Five, pp.61-62
When your mission is carefully explained, and it is seen by the recipient of your confidence how helpful he can really be, the conversation will start easily and will soon become eager.


11.
  ... start fresh with him?  BB To Employers, p.145
Can you charge this off as you would a bad account and start fresh with him?


12.
  ... start from that point.  BB Bill's Story, p.12
I saw that growth could start from that point.


13.
  ... start is made, then the great advantages ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.77
But if a willing start is made, then the great advantages of doing this will so quickly reveal themselves that the pain will be lessened as one obstacle after another melts away.


14.
  ... start life anew.  BB To Wives, p.114
But sometimes you must start life anew.


15.
  ... start like this.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.99
Well, we might start like this.


16.
  ... start of a new millennium.  BB Foreword to Fourth Edition, p.xxiii
This fourth edition of "Alcoholics Anonymous" came off press in November 2001, at the start of a new millennium.


17.
  ... start of a third at Cleveland.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
A second small group promptly took shape at New York, to be followed in 1937 with the start of a third at Cleveland.


18.
  ... start off as a moderate drinker; he ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.21
He may start off as a moderate drinker; he may or may not become a continuous hard drinker; but at some stage of his drinking career he begins to lose all control of his liquor consumption, once he starts to drink.


19.
  ... start on A.A.'s program has been made.  12&12 Step Three, p.39
Of course the sponsor points out that our friend's life is still unmanageable even though he is sober, that after all, only a bare start on A.A.'s program has been made.


20.
  ... start on the new basis, but just ...  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.


21.
  ... start out as an evangelist or reformer.  BB Working With Others, p.89
Don't start out as an evangelist or reformer.


22.
  ... start out by forgiving them, one and ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
If we are now about to ask forgiveness for ourselves, why shouldn't we start out by forgiving them, one and all?


23.
  ... start their journey, that all will not ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.122
Let families realize, as they start their journey, that all will not be fair weather.


24.
  ... start, this was all we needed to ...  BB We Agnostics, p.47
At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with God as we understood Him.


25.
  ... start to withdraw again just because your ...  BB Working With Others, p.102
Don't start to withdraw again just because your friends drink liquor.


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