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1.
  ... another.  BB There Is A Solution, p.26
For years he had floundered from one sanitarium to another.


2.
  ... another."  BB More About Alcoholism, p.36
That didn't seem to bother me so I tried another."


3.
  ... another.  BB Into Action, p.80
He thus used his own wrong-doing as a means of destroying the reputation of another.


4.
  ... another.  BB Working With Others, p.99
In some cases the wife will never come back for one reason or another.


5.
  ... another.  BB To Wives, p.110
He has been placed in one institution after another.


6.
  ... another.  12&12 Step Ten, p.89
Although all inventories are alike in principle, the time factor does distinguish one from another.


7.
  ... another.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.178
At first, the society was composed entirely of alcoholics trying to help one another.


8.
  ... another a directive and enforce obedience, our ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.132
When told that our Society has no president having authority to govern it, no treasurer who can compel the payment of any dues, no board of directors who can cast an erring member into outer darkness, when indeed no A.A. can give another a directive and enforce obedience, our friends gasp and exclaim, "This simply can't be. There must be an angle somewhere."


9.
  ... another addiction even worse stigmatized than alcoholism, ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
"But," he asked, "will you let me join your group? Since I am the victim of another addiction even worse stigmatized than alcoholism, you may not want me among you. Or will you?"


10.
  ... another alcoholic.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
He suddenly realized that in order to save himself he must carry his message to another alcoholic.


11.
  ... another alcoholic and try again.  BB Working With Others, p.96
Search out another alcoholic and try again.


12.
  ... another alcoholic has accomplished in a few ...  BB To Wives, p.118
We do not like the thought that the contents of a book or the work of another alcoholic has accomplished in a few weeks that for which we struggled for years.


13.
  ... another alcoholic in a few hours.  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
But the ex-problem drinker who has found this solution, who is properly armed with facts about himself, can generally win the entire confidence of another alcoholic in a few hours.


14.
  ... another alcoholic instead!  BB Working With Others, p.102
But if you are shaky, you had better work with another alcoholic instead!


15.
  ... another alcoholic, sharing experience, strength, and hope.  BB Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing experience, strength, and hope.


16.
  ... another alcoholic would save the day.  BB Bill's Story, p.15
This sometimes nearly drove me back to drink, but I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic would save the day.


17.
  ... another, and have become willing to have ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
But when we have taken a square look at some of these defects, have discussed them with another, and have become willing to have them removed, our thinking about humility commences to have a wider meaning.


18.
  ... another and make restitution for harm done?  12&12 Step One, p.24
Who wants to confess his faults to another and make restitution for harm done?


19.
  ... another, anyway?  12&12 Step Eight, p.80
What kinds of "harm" do people do one another, anyway?


20.
  ... another area and tries to tell the ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.173
Who is more unpopular than the oldtime A.A., full of wisdom, who moves to another area and tries to tell the group there how to run its business?


21.
  ... another as no nonalcoholic could.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
This seemed to prove that one alcoholic could affect another as no nonalcoholic could.


22.
  ... another as you find among our western ...  BB A Vision For You, p.162
There are the same fast friendships, there is the same helpfulness to one another as you find among our western friends.


23.
  ... another bad result.  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
This lack of anchorage to any permanent values, this blindness to the true purpose of our lives, produced another bad result.


24.
  ... another, but they trace exactly the same ...  BB Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
The Twelve Steps that summarize the program may be called los Doce Pasos in one country, les Douze Etapes in another, but they trace exactly the same path to recovery that was blazed by the earliest members of Alcoholics Anonymous.


25.
  ... another case, an alcoholic was sent to ...  BB To Employers, p.145
In another case, an alcoholic was sent to a hospital for treatment.


26.
  ... another case brought in by a physician ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
When I need a mental uplift, I often think of another case brought in by a physician prominent in New York.


27.
  ... another chance.  BB To Employers, p.147
If, on the contrary, you are sure he is doing his utmost, you may wish to give him another chance.


28.
  ... another clinched this determination until it became ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.141
One dramatic experience after another clinched this determination until it became our universal tradition.


29.
  ... another cocktail.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.41
Then I ordered another cocktail.


30.
  ... another's conception of God.  BB We Agnostics, p.46
Much to our relief, we discovered we did not need to consider another's conception of God.


31.
  Another crowd of A.A.'s says: "We were ...  12&12 Step Two, p.30
Another crowd of A.A.'s says: "We were plumb disgusted with religion and all its works.


32.
  ... another day.  BB Bill's Story, p.4
Tomorrow was another day.


33.
  ... another debacle with all its attendant suffering ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.22
If hundreds of experiences have shown him that one drink means another debacle with all its attendant suffering and humiliation, why is it he takes that one drink?


34.
  ... another difficulty is that you may become ...  BB To Wives, p.119
Still another difficulty is that you may become jealous of the attention he bestows on other people, especially alcoholics.


35.
  ... another discovery is made -- that most individuals ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.130
The moment this Twelfth Step work forms a group, another discovery is made -- that most individuals cannot recover unless there is a group.


36.
  ... another drink.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
He never had another drink.


37.
  ... another drink.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
It never fails, if you go about it with one half the zeal you have been in the habit of showing when you were getting another drink.


38.
  ... another drop.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.32
He made up his mind that until he had been successful in business and had retired, he would not touch another drop.


39.
  ... another drop but by nine o'clock I'd ...  BB A Vision For You, p.158
I've prayed to God on hangover mornings and sworn that I'd never touch another drop but by nine o'clock I'd be boiled as an owl."


40.
  ... another experience: A woman's voice came faintly ...  BB To Employers, p.137
Still another experience: A woman's voice came faintly over long distance from Virginia.


41.
  Another feeling we are very likely to ...  BB To Wives, p.118
Another feeling we are very likely to entertain is one of resentment that love and loyalty could not cure our husbands of alcoholism.


42.
  ... another, for they knew he had them ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.144
Dismayed, the elders looked at one another, for they knew he had them cold.


43.
  ... another friend drinking their morning coffee.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.144
Daylight found the master of the house and another friend drinking their morning coffee.


44.
  ... another glass of milk.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.36
I ordered another sandwich and decided to have another glass of milk.


45.
  Another great dividend we may expect from ...  12&12 Step Five, p.58
Another great dividend we may expect from confiding our defects to another human being is humility -- a word often misunderstood.


46.
  ... another group more to their liking.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
Disliking the attempt of some to manage a group, half its membership might angrily rush off to form another group more to their liking.


47.
  ... another, he had hitherto denied himself.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.107
In a very real sense he has been transformed, because he has laid hold of a source of strength which, in one way or another, he had hitherto denied himself.


48.
  ... another human being.  12&12 Step Four, p.53
The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being.


49.
  ... another human being.  12&12 Step Five, p.59
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.


50.
  ... another human being.  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
It had been embarrassing enough when in confidence we had admitted these things to God, to ourselves, and to another human being.


51.
  ... another human being.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.108
We knew we would have to quit the deadly business of living alone with our conflicts, and in honesty confide these to God and another human being.


52.
  ... another human being is humility -- a word ...  12&12 Step Five, p.58
Another great dividend we may expect from confiding our defects to another human being is humility -- a word often misunderstood.


53.
  ... another human being the exact nature of ...  BB How It Works, p.59
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.


54.
  ... another human being, the exact nature of ...  BB Into Action, p.72
This requires action on our part, which, when completed, will mean that we have admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our defects.


55.
  ... another human being the exact nature of ...  12&12 Contents (Step Five), p.6
Step Five -- "Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."


56.
  ... another human being the exact nature of ...  12&12 Step Five, p.55
"Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."


57.
  ... another human being we could not stay ...  12&12 Step Five, p.56
Most of us would declare that without a fearless admission of our defects to another human being we could not stay sober.


58.
  ... another illustration.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.39
Let us take another illustration.


59.
  ... another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation ...  BB We Agnostics, p.55
Yet we had been seeing another kind of flight, a spiritual liberation from this world, people who rose above their problems.


60.
  ... another kind of hangover which we all ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.88
But there is another kind of hangover which we all experience whether we are drinking or not.


61.
  ... another kind of problem: the intellectually self-sufficient ...  12&12 Step Two, p.29
Now we come to another kind of problem: the intellectually self-sufficient man or woman.


62.
  ... another look down the line.  BB To Employers, p.149
Even if you feel your organization has no alcoholic problem, it might pay to take another look down the line.


63.
  ... another man.  BB To Wives, p.111
He may seek someone else to console him -- not always another man.


64.
  Another may develop such an obsession for ...  12&12 Step Four, p.43
Another may develop such an obsession for financial security that he wants to do nothing but hoard money.


65.
  ... another melts away.  12&12 Step Eight, pp.77-78
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.


66.
  ... another of the leading universities of the ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, pp.173-174
After many painful discussions, they finally gave me my credits and I migrated to another of the leading universities of the country and entered as a Junior that Fall.


67.
  ... another off in the name of God.  12&12 Step Two, p.30
How we loved to shout the damaging fact that millions of the 'good men of religion' were still killing one another off in the name of God.


68.
  ... another often produces the contrary effect.  BB The Family Afterward, p.125
A man may criticize or laugh at himself and it will affect others favorably, but criticism or ridicule coming from another often produces the contrary effect.


69.
  ... another or anybody else is not counted ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
Let us reemphasize that this reluctance to fight one another or anybody else is not counted as some special virtue which makes us feel superior to other people.


70.
  ... another paralyzing fear.  BB To Wives, p.116
There is another paralyzing fear.


71.
  ... another, "Perhaps it would be a good ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.133
They say to one another, "Perhaps it would be a good idea if we continue to keep a firm hand on A.A. in this town.


72.
  ... another person.  BB Into Action, p.72
This is perhaps difficult -- especially discussing our defects with another person.


73.
  ... another person.  BB Into Action, p.81
We feel we ought to say to her that we have no right to involve another person.


74.
  ... another person.  12&12 Step Five, p.60
Somehow, being alone with God doesn't seem as embarrassing as facing up to another person.


75.
  ... another person at once?  BB Into Action, p.86
Have we kept something to ourselves which should be discussed with another person at once?


76.
  ... another person, but we are sure we ...  BB Into Action, p.78
We have already admitted this in confidence to another person, but we are sure we would be imprisoned or lose our job if it were known.


77.
  ... another person's expense.  BB Into Action, p.74
We have no right to save our own skin at another person's expense.


78.
  ... another person for a whole day, or ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.91
One unkind tirade or one willful snap judgment can ruin our relation with another person for a whole day, or maybe a whole year.


79.
  ... another person is, of course, very ancient.  12&12 Step Five, p.56
This practice of admitting one's defects to another person is, of course, very ancient.


80.
  ... another person is that we can get ...  12&12 Step Five, p.60
The benefit of talking to another person is that we can get his direct comment and counsel on our situation, and there can be no doubt in our minds what that advice is.


81.
  ... another person, it confirms that we have ...  12&12 Step Five, p.60
When we are honest with another person, it confirms that we have been honest with ourselves and with God.


82.
  ... another person, our emotions go on the ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
The moment we ponder a twisted or broken relationship with another person, our emotions go on the defensive.


83.
  ... another person unless we are sure he ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.125
Another principle we observe carefully is that we do not relate intimate experiences of another person unless we are sure he would approve.


84.
  ... another person when we see good reasons ...  BB Into Action, p.72
We will be more reconciled to discussing ourselves with another person when we see good reasons why we should do so.


85.
  ... another pleasant rationalization.  12&12 Step Six, p.69
Such a bluffing of oneself will have to go the way of many another pleasant rationalization.


86.
  Another principle we observe carefully is that ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.125
Another principle we observe carefully is that we do not relate intimate experiences of another person unless we are sure he would approve.


87.
  ... another problem.  12&12 Step Four, p.46
The sponsors of those who feel they need no inventory are confronted with quite another problem.


88.
  ... another reason for our collective poverty.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.160
There was another reason for our collective poverty.


89.
  Another reason for the wide acceptance of ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
Another reason for the wide acceptance of A.A. was the ministration of friends -- friends in medicine, religion, and the press, together with innumerable others who became our able and persistent advocates.


90.
  ... another reason for this singleness of purpose.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.151
There is another reason for this singleness of purpose.


91.
  ... another revolutionary change in our outlook.  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
This improved perception of humility starts another revolutionary change in our outlook.


92.
  ... another sandwich and decided to have another ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.36
I ordered another sandwich and decided to have another glass of milk.


93.
  ... another serious drinker.  BB To Wives, p.112
Meanwhile you might try to help the wife of another serious drinker.


94.
  ... another similar temptation.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.104
We also fall into another similar temptation.


95.
  ... another solid obstacle.  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
When listing the people we have harmed, most of us hit another solid obstacle.


96.
  ... another statement which follows.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
The physician who, at our request, gave us this letter, has been kind enough to enlarge upon his views in another statement which follows.


97.
  ... another story about money.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
There is another story about money.


98.
  ... another, that nothing like a central government ...  12&12 Foreword, p.16
Why is it, they ask, that in A.A. no member can be set in personal authority over another, that nothing like a central government can anywhere be seen?


99.
  ... another, the aggrieved one would unearth the ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.124
Then, under one provocation or another, the aggrieved one would unearth the old affair and angrily cast its ashes about.


100.
  ... another the true nature of his malady, ...  12&12 Step One, p.23
It was then discovered that when one alcoholic had planted in the mind of another the true nature of his malady, that person could never be the same again.


101.
  ... another, there would be no society.  12&12 Step Four, p.42
If there were no social instinct, if men cared nothing for the society of one another, there would be no society.


102.
  ... another, they cover these men, hoping matters ...  BB To Employers, p.147
So, for one reason or another, they cover these men, hoping matters will take a turn for the better.


103.
  ... another; they sought to find whatever personality ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.123
The doctors weren't trying to find how different we were from one another; they sought to find whatever personality traits, if any, this group of alcoholics had in common.


104.
  ... another thing you might wish to do.  BB To Employers, p.147
There is another thing you might wish to do.


105.
  Another time, as I opened a letter ...  BB To Employers, p.136
Another time, as I opened a letter which lay on my desk, a newspaper clipping fell out.


106.
  Another time you may have to send ...  BB Working With Others, p.97
Another time you may have to send for the police or an ambulance.


107.
  ... another to do anything; nobody can be ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.129
No A.A. can compel another to do anything; nobody can be punished or expelled.


108.
  ... another trip to the asylum if he ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
He knew he faced another trip to the asylum if he kept on.


109.
  ... another very sick, unreasonable person.  BB To Wives, p.108
He is just another very sick, unreasonable person.


110.
  ... another view of this absolute humiliation.  12&12 Step One, p.21
But upon entering A.A. we soon take quite another view of this absolute humiliation.


111.
  ... another, was vital to permanent recovery.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvii
It also indicated that strenuous work, one alcoholic with another, was vital to permanent recovery.


112.
  ... another way of saying that we were ...  12&12 Step Four, p.48
For we had started to get perspective on ourselves, which is another way of saying that we were gaining in humility.


113.
  ... another, we discovered that faith had been ...  BB We Agnostics, p.54
So, in one way or another, we discovered that faith had been involved all the time!


114.
  ... another we had been living by faith ...  BB We Agnostics, p.54
In one form or another we had been living by faith and little else.


115.
  ... another, "We heard a radio program..."; and ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.180
One voice says, "I read a piece in the newspapers..."; another, "We heard a radio program..."; and still another, "We saw a moving picture..." or "We saw something about A.A. on television...."


116.
  ... another, we resentfully focus on the wrong ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
To escape looking at the wrongs we have done another, we resentfully focus on the wrong he has done us.


117.
  ... another, "We saw a moving picture..." or ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.180
One voice says, "I read a piece in the newspapers..."; another, "We heard a radio program..."; and still another, "We saw a moving picture..." or "We saw something about A.A. on television...."


118.
  ... another whiskey and poured it into more ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.36
The experiment went so well that I ordered another whiskey and poured it into more milk.


119.
  ... another, "will that guy get drunk?"  12&12 Tradition Three, p.144
"When, oh when," groaned members to one another, "will that guy get drunk?"


120.
  ... another wonderful excuse for avoiding an inventory.  12&12 Step Four, p.45
We also clutch at another wonderful excuse for avoiding an inventory.


121.
  ... another word was said.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
Not another word was said.


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