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


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1.
  ... between a demand and a simple request ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.76
The difference between a demand and a simple request is plain to anyone.


2.
  ... between a New York stockbroker and an ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xv
The spark that was to flare into the first A.A. group was struck at Akron, Ohio, in June 1935, during a talk between a New York stockbroker and an Akron physician.


3.
  ... between a powerful spiritual experience and a ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
We have found nothing incompatible between a powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.


4.
  ... between a well-known surgeon and a New ...  12&12 Foreword, p.16
Alcoholics Anonymous began in 1935 at Akron, Ohio, as the outcome of a meeting between a well-known surgeon and a New York broker.


5.
  ... between binges we'd sometimes go to the ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
In our drinking time, we acted as if the money supply was inexhaustible, though between binges we'd sometimes go to the other extreme and become almost miserly.


6.
  ... between character and comfort, the character-building was ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
But whenever we had to choose between character and comfort, the character-building was lost in the dust of our chase after what we thought was happiness.


7.
  ... between East and West and we foresee ...  BB A Vision For You, p.162
There is a good bit of travel between East and West and we foresee a great increase in this helpful interchange.


8.
  ... between failure and success.  BB Working With Others, p.98
That often makes the difference between failure and success.


9.
  ... between life and death.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
To those now in its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous has made the difference between misery and sobriety, and often the difference between life and death.


10.
  ... between misery and sobriety, and often the ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
To those now in its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous has made the difference between misery and sobriety, and often the difference between life and death.


11.
  ... between our first printing of this book ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xv
Sixteen years have elapsed between our first printing of this book and the presentation in 1955 of our second edition.


12.
  ... between ourselves and God as we understand ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.102
With it we can broaden and deepen the channel between ourselves and God as we understand Him.


13.
  ... between professionalism and nonprofessionalism.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.167
At last, however, a plain line of cleavage could be seen between professionalism and nonprofessionalism.


14.
  ... between reviling ourselves and blaming the family ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.84
This will be a very different occasion, and in sharp contrast with those hangover mornings when we alternated between reviling ourselves and blaming the family (and everyone else) for our troubles.


15.
  ... between sane drinking and alcoholism.  12&12 Step Two, p.33
They are abetted in this blindness by a world which does not understand the difference between sane drinking and alcoholism.


16.
  ... between Scylla and Charybdis now, because if ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
I was between Scylla and Charybdis now, because if I did not drink my stomach tortured me, and if I did my nerves did the same thing.


17.
  ... between self-examination and meditation and prayer.  12&12 Contents (Step Eleven), p.8
Connection between self-examination and meditation and prayer.


18.
  ... between spirit of authority and spirit of ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition Nine), p.12
Difference between spirit of authority and spirit of service.


19.
  ... between striving for a self-determined objective and ...  12&12 Step Six, p.68
So the difference between "the boys and the men" is the difference between striving for a self-determined objective and for the perfect objective which is of God.


20.
  ... between striving for objective -- and perfection.  12&12 Contents (Step Six), p.6
Recognition of difference between striving for objective -- and perfection.


21.
  ... between such people and the alcoholic.  BB To Employers, p.149
As to them, his policy is undoubtedly sound, but he did not distinguish between such people and the alcoholic.


22.
  ... between the alcoholic and the non-alcoholic.  BB We Agnostics, p.44
We hope we have made clear the distinction between the alcoholic and the non-alcoholic.


23.
  ... between "the boys and the men" is ...  12&12 Step Six, p.68
So the difference between "the boys and the men" is the difference between striving for a self-determined objective and for the perfect objective which is of God.


24.
  ... between the pains of trying and the ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
We are obliged to choose between the pains of trying and the certain penalties of failing to do so.


25.
  ... between the spirit of vested authority and ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.174
It is the difference between the spirit of vested authority and the spirit of service, two concepts which are sometimes poles apart.


26.
  ... between these extremes took a long time.  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.185
The charting of a safe path between these extremes took a long time.


27.
  Between these lines, it is easy to ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.184
Between these lines, it is easy to read our fear that large numbers of incoming people might break our anonymity wide open.


28.
  ... between two points, yet, there it was.  BB We Agnostics, p.54
We could not prove life in the sense that you can prove a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, yet, there it was.


29.
  ... between voluntary Twelfth Step work and paid-for ...  12&12 Contents (Tradition Eight), p.11
Line of cleavage between voluntary Twelfth Step work and paid-for services.


30.
  ... between you and your friends will disappear ...  BB To Wives, p.115
Barriers which have sprung up between you and your friends will disappear with the growth of sympathetic understanding.


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