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


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1.
  ... best.  BB Working With Others, p.102
Go or stay away, whichever seems best.


2.
  ... best.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.565
Rotating leadership is the best.


3.
  ... best.  12&12 Step Two, p.30
We gloated over the hypocrisy, bigotry, and crushing self-righteousness that clung to so many 'believers' even in their Sunday best.


4.
  ... best?  12&12 Tradition Two, p.138
'Bill, haven't you often said right here in this meeting that sometimes the good is the enemy of the best?


5.
  ... best.  12&12 Tradition Nine (Long), p.191
Rotating leadership is the best.


6.
  ... best advocate.  12&12 Step One, p.24
John Barleycorn himself had become our best advocate.


7.
  ... best answer this by relating one of ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxxi
Perhaps I can best answer this by relating one of my experiences.


8.
  ... best answers that our experience has yet ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous are, we A.A.'s believe, the best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can A.A. best stay whole and so survive?"


9.
  ... best bet.  12&12 Step Five, p.61
For some of us, a complete stranger may prove the best bet.


10.
  ... best boss he ever had, and that ...  BB To Employers, p.136
He left us a note saying you were the best boss he ever had, and that you were not to blame in any way."


11.
  ... best colleges in the country where drinking ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
After high school came four years in one of the best colleges in the country where drinking seemed to be a major extra-curricular activity.


12.
  ... best course.  BB To Employers, p.142
This may seem severe, but it is usually the best course.


13.
  ... best course to take.  BB Into Action, p.81
Though there may be justifiable exceptions, and though we wish to lay down no rule of any sort, we have often found this the best course to take.


14.
  ... best customers away from you.  BB To Employers, p.145
He may, for example, reveal that he has padded his expense account or that he has planned to take your best customers away from you.


15.
  ... best deal we can we let these ...  BB Into Action, p.78
Arranging the best deal we can we let these people know we are sorry.


16.
  ... best efforts of family, friends, doctors, and ...  12&12 Step Six, p.63
Change of scene, the best efforts of family, friends, doctors, and clergymen got no place with my alcoholism.


17.
  ... best, fall far short of such achievements ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.112
Of course all A.A.'s, even the best, fall far short of such achievements as a consistent thing.


18.
  ... best friend, or spiritual adviser.  BB How It Works, p.63
We found it very desirable to take this spiritual step with an understanding person, such as our wife, best friend, or spiritual adviser.


19.
  ... best friends of the very character defects ...  12&12 Step Five, p.56
They will tell how they tried to carry the load alone; how much they suffered of irritability, anxiety, remorse, and depression; and how, unconsciously seeking relief, they would sometimes accuse even their best friends of the very character defects they themselves were trying to conceal.


20.
  ... best friends to a snapping point, and ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
We've repeatedly strained the patience of our best friends to a snapping point, and have brought out the very worst in those who didn't think much of us to begin with.


21.
  ... best function?" and, "How can A.A. best ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous are, we A.A.'s believe, the best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can A.A. best stay whole and so survive?"


22.
  ... best he had ever known!  BB Bill's Story, p.11
Then he had, in effect, been raised from the dead, suddenly taken from the scrap heap to a level of life better than the best he had ever known!


23.
  ... best-intentioned of us can fall for the ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.113
The best-intentioned of us can fall for the "two-step" illusion.


24.
  ... best interests of all concerned that a ...  BB Working With Others, p.99
Sometimes it is to the best interests of all concerned that a couple remain apart.


25.
  ... best judgment of what has been right ...  12&12 Step Four, p.50
Using his best judgment of what has been right and what has been wrong, he might make a rough survey of his conduct with respect to his primary instincts for sex, security, and society.


26.
  ... best known American psychiatrists.  BB There Is A Solution, p.26
He had consulted the best known American psychiatrists.


27.
  ... best mathematical minds had proved man could ...  BB We Agnostics, p.51
Was it not true that the best mathematical minds had proved man could never fly?


28.
  ... best minds.  BB We Agnostics, pp.54-55
Neither is reason, as most of us use it, entirely dependable, though it emanate from our best minds.


29.
  ... best moments, a producer of confusion rather ...  BB How It Works, p.61
Is he not, even in his best moments, a producer of confusion rather than harmony?


30.
  ... best moments for the worst I have ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.43
My old manner of life was by no means a bad one, but I would not exchange its best moments for the worst I have now.


31.
  ... best not to take sides in any ...  BB To Wives, p.115
Unless they actually need protection from their father, it is best not to take sides in any argument he has with them while drinking.


32.
  Best of all, I met a kind ...  BB Bill's Story, p.7
Best of all, I met a kind doctor who explained that though certainly selfish and foolish, I had been seriously ill, bodily and mentally.


33.
  ... best of employers, can scarcely blame them ...  BB To Employers, p.138
And we, who have imposed on the best of employers, can scarcely blame them if they have been short with us.


34.
  ... best of his ability our suggested Twelve ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.174
Unless each A.A. member follows to the best of his ability our suggested Twelve Steps to recovery, he almost certainly signs his own death warrant.


35.
  ... best of intentions, he tends to force ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.104
With the best of intentions, he tends to force his own will into all sorts of situations and problems with the comfortable assurance that he is acting under God's specific direction.


36.
  ... best of them will sometimes let us ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.115
We had refused to learn the very hard lesson that overdependence upon people is unsuccessful because all people are fallible, and even the best of them will sometimes let us down, especially when our demands for attention become unreasonable.


37.
  ... best of today.  BB We Agnostics, p.51
Students of ancient history tell us that the intellect of men in those days was equal to the best of today.


38.
  ... best of us will discover to our ...  12&12 Step Six, p.66
Even then the best of us will discover to our dismay that there is always a sticking point, a point at which we say, "No, I can't give this up yet."


39.
  ... best organizers I have ever known.  BB To Employers, p.137
I had been obliged to discharge him for drinking, though he was brilliant, alert, and one of the best organizers I have ever known.


40.
  ... best possible attitude one can take in ...  12&12 Step Six, p.65
So Step Six -- "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character" -- is A.A.'s way of stating the best possible attitude one can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime job.


41.
  ... best possible committees, corporate service directors, executives, ...  BB Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.575
XI. The trustees should always have the best possible committees, corporate service directors, executives, staffs, and consultants. Composition, qualifications, induction procedures, and rights and duties will always be matters of serious concern.


42.
  ... best possible medical attention, he should understand ...  BB To Employers, p.143
Though you are providing him with the best possible medical attention, he should understand that he must undergo a change of heart.


43.
  ... best possible public relations policy for Alcoholics ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.180
Therefore, a great responsibility fell upon us to develop the best possible public relations policy for Alcoholics Anonymous.


44.
  ... best possible relations with every human being ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.77
First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop the best possible relations with every human being we know.


45.
  ... best possible source of emotional stability to ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.116
When we developed still more, we discovered the best possible source of emotional stability to be God Himself.


46.
  ... best press agents.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.181
It resulted in more favorable publicity of Alcoholics Anonymous than could possibly have been obtained through all the arts and abilities of A.A.'s best press agents.


47.
  ... best professionals, whether medical or religious.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.166
Almost no recovery from alcoholism has ever been brought about by the world's best professionals, whether medical or religious.


48.
  ... best projects when drunk; that the most ...  BB Bill's Story, p.2
We had long talks when I would still her forebodings by telling her that men of genius conceived their best projects when drunk; that the most majestic constructions of philosophic thought were so derived.


49.
  ... best reason first: If we skip this ...  BB Into Action, p.72
The best reason first: If we skip this vital step, we may not overcome drinking.


50.
  ... best results can be had under their ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
Dr. G. Kirby Collier, psychiatrist: "I have felt that A.A. is a group unto themselves and their best results can be had under their own guidance, as a result of their philosophy.


51.
  ... best salesmen I ever had.  BB To Employers, p.137
It was the obituary of one of the best salesmen I ever had.


52.
  ... best sense of the word.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
This is Twelfth Step work in the very best sense of the word.


53.
  ... best serve Thee -- Thy will (not mine) ...  BB Into Action, p.85
"How can I best serve Thee -- Thy will (not mine) be done."


54.
  ... best she knows how, but meanwhile the ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.118
The wife usually goes on doing the best she knows how, but meanwhile the alcoholic alternately loves and hates her maternal care.


55.
  ... best stay whole and so survive?"  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous are, we A.A.'s believe, the best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can A.A. best stay whole and so survive?"


56.
  ... best that no one tell him he ...  BB To Employers, p.144
When the man is presented with this volume it is best that no one tell him he must abide by its suggestions.


57.
  ... best to drop the subject, but after ...  BB To Wives, p.112
If this kind of approach does not catch your husband's interest, it may be best to drop the subject, but after a friendly talk your husband will usually revive the topic himself.


58.
  ... best to live and work together as ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition One), p.9
Tradition One -- "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity." Without unity, A.A. dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each A.A.'s life depends on obedience to spiritual principles. The group must survive or the individual will not. Common welfare comes first. How best to live and work together as groups.


59.
  ... best to live and work together as ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.130
So at the outset, how best to live and work together as groups became the prime question.


60.
  ... best understanding of His will that we ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.102
We ask simply that throughout the day God place in us the best understanding of His will that we can have for that day, and that we be given the grace by which we may carry it out.


61.
  ... best way of treating you to a ...  BB A Vision For You, p.153
Perhaps the best way of treating you to a glimpse of your future will be to describe the growth of the fellowship among us.


62.
  ... best we can do, with all the ...  12&12 Step Six, p.65
The best we can do, with all the honesty that we can summon, is to try to have it.


63.
  ... best we can, we try to ask ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.102
Having opened our channel as best we can, we try to ask for those right things of which we and others are in the greatest need.


64.
  ... best we could; and the other, to ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.25
We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help.


65.
  ... best we know how to make progress ...  12&12 Step Six, p.65
He asks only that we try as best we know how to make progress in the building of character.


66.
  ... best we know or can learn.  12&12 Step Six, p.65
The key words "entirely ready" underline the fact that we want to aim at the very best we know or can learn.


67.
  ... best will do!'  12&12 Tradition Two, p.138
This is a matter of life and death, Bill, and nothing but the very best will do!'


68.
  ... best work grudgingly and under half steam.  12&12 Step Four, p.49
We loaf and procrastinate, or at best work grudgingly and under half steam.


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