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This practice enables us
to lend a hand, at the same time avoiding certain alluring distractions
of the road, about which any traveling man can inform you.(*)
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Even if he displays a certain amount of neglect and irresponsibility towards the family, it is well to let him go as far as he likes in helping other alcoholics.
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Wherever men are gathered together in business there will be rivalries and, arising out of these, a certain amount of office politics.
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For most alcoholics who are drinking, or who are just getting over a spree, a certain amount of physical treatment is desirable,
even imperative.
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This means that side by side with an earnest prayer there can be a certain amount of presumption and
conceit in us.
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We A.A.'s cannot pretend to offer full answers to age-old perplexities, but our own experience does provide certain answers that work for us.
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They flatly declare that
since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves,
to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a
revolutionary change
in their way of living and thinking.
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Of course, the often disputed question of whether God can -- and will, under certain conditions -- remove defects of character will be answered with a prompt affirmative by almost any A.A. member.
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The almost certain consequences that follow
taking even a glass of beer do not crowd into the mind to deter us.
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I have had many men who had, for
example, worked a period of months on some problem or business deal which was to be settled on
a certain date, favorably to them.
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We have admitted certain defects; we have ascertained in a rough way what the trouble is; we have
put our finger on the weak items in our personal inventory.
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Certain drinkers, who would
be greatly insulted if called alcoholics, are astonished at their inability to stop.
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But we recoiled from meditation and prayer as obstinately as the scientist who refused to perform a certain experiment lest it prove his pet theory wrong.
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Being certain he wants to stop, you can go to him with this volume as joyfully as though you had struck oil.
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Be certain he will be welcomed by your family, and
that he is not trying to impose upon you for money, connections, or shelter.
27.
In the course of his third treatment he acquired
certain ideas concerning a possible means of recovery.
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To certain newcomers and to
those one-time agnostics who still cling to the A.A. group as their higher power, claims for the power of prayer may, despite all the logic and experience in proof of it, still be unconvincing or quite objectionable.
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If he can afford it, he may have liquor concealed all over his house to be certain no one gets his entire supply away from him to throw down the wastepipe.
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That may be true of certain nonalcoholic people who,
though drinking foolishly and heavily at
the present time, are able to stop or moderate, because their brains and bodies have not been
damaged as ours were.
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And with such good effect that the doctor agreed to a test among his patients and certain other alcoholics from a clinic
which he attends.
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Sometimes these excuses
have a certain plausibility, but none of
them really makes sense in the light of the havoc an alcoholic's drinking bout creates.
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At a certain point in the drinking of every alcoholic, he passes into a
state where the most powerful desire to stop drinking is of absolutely no avail.
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His call to the clergyman
led him presently to a certain resident of the town, who, though formerly able and respected, was then nearing
the nadir of alcoholic despair.
42.
He got in touch with a prominent psychiatrist
who had undertaken certain
responsibilities for the mental health of the community.
43.
With a certain satisfaction I reflected there was enough
gin concealed about the house to carry me through that night and the next day.
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He can go anywhere on this earth where other free men may go
without disaster, provided he remains willing to maintain a certain simple attitude.
46.
They flatly declare that
since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves,
to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a
revolutionary change
in their way of living and thinking.
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If you have decided you want
what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it -- then you are
ready to take certain steps.
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We are certain that our intelligence, backed by
willpower, can rightly
control our inner lives and guarantee us success in the world we live in.
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How could we be certain that we had made a true catalog of our defects and
had really admitted them,
even to ourselves?
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There is no use arousing any prejudice he may have against certain theological terms and conceptions about which he may already be confused.
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We are unable, at certain times, to bring into our consciousness with sufficient force the memory of the suffering and
humiliation of even a week or a month ago.
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If he temporizes and still thinks he can ever drink again, even beer, he might as well be discharged after the next bender which, if an alcoholic, he is almost
certain to have.
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For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he
could not survive the certain
trials and low spots ahead.
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