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

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ANSWER   occurs   47 times 21 in BB  •  26 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
See also...   answers
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1.
  ... answer.  BB To Employers, p.144
Ask him if he thinks he has the answer.


2.
  ... answer.  BB A Vision For You, p.160
Many an alcoholic who entered there came away with an answer.


3.
  ... answer.  12&12 Step Two, p.32
There are too many of us who have been just like him, and have found the riddle's answer.


4.
  ... answer.  12&12 Step Five, p.57
Step Five was the answer.


5.
  ... answer.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.178
Had they been left to themselves, and had they stuck to their one goal, they might have found the rest of the answer.


6.
  ... answer.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.187
At this altitude (press, radio, films, and television), anonymity -- 100 percent anonymity -- was the only possible answer.


7.
  ... answer and program of action which a ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.42
"Then they outlined the spiritual answer and program of action which a hundred of them had followed successfully.


8.
  ... answer be -- yes or no?"  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
What shall the answer be -- yes or no?"


9.
  ... answer enough for any alcoholic.  12&12 Step Three, p.37
One good look in the mirror ought to be answer enough for any alcoholic.


10.
  ... answer for alcoholism, it was reasonable (or ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.155
The moment we saw that we had an answer for alcoholism, it was reasonable (or so it seemed at the time) for us to feel that we might have the answer to a lot of other things.


11.
  ... answer for sufferers of this disease.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.150
Alcoholics Anonymous can be likened to a group of physicians who might find a cure for cancer, and upon whose concerted work would depend the answer for sufferers of this disease.


12.
  ... answer for that one.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.153
"Thank heaven I came up with the right answer for that one.


13.
  ... answer for you.  BB To Wives, p.110
His case presents additional questions which we shall try to answer for you.


14.
  ... answer for you.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
But if you really and truly want to quit drinking liquor for good and all, and sincerely feel that you must have some help, we know that we have an answer for you.


15.
  ... answer had to be that A.A. needed ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.153
Suppose my answer had to be that A.A. needed a lot of money; that A.A. went in for education, hospitals, and rehabilitation?


16.
  ... answer has to do with the quality ...  12&12 Step Two, p.32
This answer has to do with the quality of faith rather than its quantity.


17.
  ... answer he felt as though he lived ...  BB We Agnostics, p.56
While pondering the answer he felt as though he lived in hell.


18.
  ... answer I could make was that if ...  BB To Employers, p.138
The only answer I could make was that if the man followed the usual pattern, he would go on a bigger bust than ever.


19.
  ... answer is in still more spiritual development.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.114
Our answer is in still more spiritual development.


20.
  ... answer is "No.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.170
We think the answer is "No.


21.
  ... answer is that few people will sincerely ...  12&12 Step One, p.24
The answer is that few people will sincerely try to practice the A.A. program unless they have hit bottom.


22.
  ... answer is that since these things have ...  BB A Vision For You, p.153
The practical answer is that since these things have happened among us, they can happen with you.


23.
  ... answer is "Yes, notwithstanding the apparent lack ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.134
Most emphatically the answer is "Yes, notwithstanding the apparent lack of it."


24.
  ... answer its telephone, but it was an ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.167
Even more important, an empty club couldn't answer its telephone, but it was an open invitation to a drunk on a binge who possessed a spare key.


25.
  ... answer may begin to find one in ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xxi
Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as yet found no answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.


26.
  ... answer, now seen in Tradition Three, was ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.141
The answer, now seen in Tradition Three, was simplicity itself.


27.
  ... answer -- self-knowledge.  BB Bill's Story, p.7
Surely this was the answer -- self-knowledge.


28.
  ... answer such questions specifically.  BB There Is A Solution, p.20
It is the purpose of this book to answer such questions specifically.


29.
  ... answer, that he has no attitude of ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
That the man who is making the approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is talking about, that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with a real answer, that he has no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that there are no fees to pay, no axes to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured -- these are the conditions we have found most effective.


30.
  ... answer the riddle.  BB There Is A Solution, p.22
We cannot answer the riddle.


31.
  ... answer these questions satisfactorily, you need have ...  BB Working With Others, p.102
If you answer these questions satisfactorily, you need have no apprehension.


32.
  ... answer this by relating one of my ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
Perhaps I can best answer this by relating one of my experiences.


33.
  ... answer this question with a loud "No!"  12&12 Tradition One, p.129
We may certainly answer this question with a loud "No!"


34.
  ... answer to a lot of other things.  12&12 Tradition Six, p.155
The moment we saw that we had an answer for alcoholism, it was reasonable (or so it seemed at the time) for us to feel that we might have the answer to a lot of other things.


35.
  ... answer to alcoholism.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.178
The Washingtonian Society, a movement among alcoholics which started in Baltimore a century ago, almost discovered the answer to alcoholism.


36.
  ... answer to all my problems today.  BB Acceptance, p.417
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.


37.
  ... answer to it is apparent to us.  12&12 Step Six, p.64
Nevertheless, at least a part of the answer to it is apparent to us.


38.
  ... answer to my liquor problem.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.178
My wife became deeply interested, and it was her interest that sustained mine, though I at no time sensed that it might be an answer to my liquor problem.


39.
  ... answer to our problems.  12&12 Contents (Step Twelve), p.9
Growing spiritually is the answer to our problems.


40.
  ... answer to our satisfaction, we then look ...  BB Into Action, p.76
If we can answer to our satisfaction, we then look at Step Six.


41.
  ... answer to these questions.  BB There Is A Solution, p.22
Perhaps there never will be a full answer to these questions.


42.
  ... answer to these questions about living is ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
The A.A. answer to these questions about living is "Yes, all of these things are possible."


43.
  ... answer to which may be only in ...  12&12 Step Six, p.64
This is a riddle of our existence, the full answer to which may be only in the mind of God.


44.
  ... answer was 'My own sobriety and a ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.152
"Of course, my answer was 'My own sobriety and a mighty happy life.'


45.
  ... answer we had found.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.35
We told him what we knew of alcoholism and the answer we had found.


46.
  ... answer which can fit all such dilemmas.  12&12 Step Nine, p.87
Of course, there is no pat answer which can fit all such dilemmas.


47.
  ... answer will come, if we want it.  BB How It Works, p.69
The right answer will come, if we want it.


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