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For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
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Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct these flaws is the essence of character-building and good living.
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The principle that we shall find no
enduring strength until we first admit complete defeat is the main taproot from which our whole Society has sprung and flowered.
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We, who have been through the wringer, have to admit if we substituted alcoholism
for jay-walking, the illustration would fit us exactly.
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The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they
cannot after a time differentiate the true
from the false.
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By this time, at Step Ten, we had begun to get a basis for daily living, and we keenly realized that we would
need to continue taking personal inventory, and that when we were in the wrong we ought to admit it promptly.
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Whenever we fail any of these people, we can promptly admit it -- to ourselves always, and to
them also, when the admission would be helpful.
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"We were resolved to admit
nobody to A.A. but that hypothetical class of people we termed 'pure alcoholics.'
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It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive drinking
that only an act of Providence can remove it
from us.
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Admit that he probably knows more about it than you do,
but call to his attention
the fact that however deep his
faith and knowledge, he
could not have applied it or he would not drink.
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But even in this type of beginning we are obliged to
admit that our justification for a spree
was insanely insufficient in the light
of what always happened.
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And even while staying within conventional bounds, many people have to admit that their imaginary sex excursions are apt to be all dressed up as dreams of romance.
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But even these people, if they
construct a list of still milder defects, will be obliged to admit that they prefer to hang on to some of
them.
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First of all, we had to admit
that we had many of these defects, even though such disclosures were painful
and humiliating.
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Most of us must admit that we
have loved but a few; that we
have been quite indifferent to the many so
long as none of them gave us trouble; and as for the
remainder -- well, we have
really disliked or hated them.
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After coming from our first meeting, or perhaps after we have finished reading the book "Alcoholics Anonymous," we usually want to sit down with some member of the family and readily admit the damage we have done by our drinking.
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We'd have to have outside help if we were surely to know and admit the truth about ourselves -- the
help of God and another human being.
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Though the aggregate of
recoveries resulting
from psychiatric effort
is considerable, we physicians must admit we have made little impression upon the problem as a whole.
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We admit we have some of these symptoms, but we have not gone
to the extremes you fellows did, nor are we likely to, for we understand ourselves so
well after what you have told us that such things cannot happen again.
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In all these situations we need self-restraint, honest analysis of what is involved, a willingness
to admit when the fault is ours, and an equal willingness to forgive
when the fault is elsewhere.
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