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In fact, we felt duty-bound to throw the whole weight of the A.A. name behind any meritorious cause.
3.
We conceive the survival
and spread of Alcoholics
Anonymous to be something of far greater importance than
the weight we could collectively throw back of any other cause.
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7.
When thus out of joint, man's natural desires cause him great trouble, practically all
the trouble there is.
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9.
It occurred to us that we could take what we had into the factories and cause laborers and capitalists
to love each other.
10.
There are many situations
which arise out of the phenomenon of craving
which cause men to make the supreme sacrifice rather than continue to fight.
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12.
By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions:
that his character defects, representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary
cause of his drinking and
his failure at life; that unless he is now willing to work hard at the elimination of
the worst of these defects,
both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude him; that all the faulty
foundation of his life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock.
13.
Despite this certainty,
it is nevertheless true
that few subjects have been
the cause of more contention within our Fellowship than professionalism.
14.
Since defective relations with other human beings have nearly always been the immediate cause of our woes, including our alcoholism, no field of investigation
could yield more satisfying and valuable
rewards than this one.
15.
No doubt the universe had a "first cause" of some sort, the God of the Atom, maybe, hot and cold by turns.
16.
We would not even do the cause
of temperate drinking
any good, for not one drinker in a thousand likes to be told anything about alcohol by one who hates it.
17.
Alcoholics especially should be able to
see that instinct run wild in themselves is the underlying cause of their destructive drinking.
18.
A.A. experience has taught us we cannot live alone with our pressing problems and the character
defects which cause or aggravate them.
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To define the word "harm" in a practical way, we might call it the result of instincts in collision, which cause physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual
damage to people.
21.
It is a spiritual axiom
that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is
something wrong with us.
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Nearly anyone could submit a good list of such defects as these, and few of us
would seriously think of
giving them up, at least until they cause us excessive misery.
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Your desire to protect him
should not cause you to lie to people when they have a right to
know where he is and what he is doing.
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