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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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He often says that if he had continued to work on them, he
might have deprived many others, who have since recovered, of their chance.
2.
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He has just returned from a
three-months leave of absence, has taken a cure, looks fine, and to clinch the matter, the board of directors told him this was his last chance."
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He might have a chance.
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We think we are sensible
when we urge that you stop this
waste and give your worthwhile man a chance.
8.
But when we are willing to place spiritual growth first -- then and only
then do we have a real chance.
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11.
Small wonder many in the medical profession have a low opinion of alcoholics and
their chance for recovery!
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His only chance for sobriety
would be some place like the Greenland Ice Cap, and even there an Eskimo might turn up with a bottle of scotch and ruin everything!
14.
Maybe the society could have
survived the abolition
controversy, but it didn't have a chance from the moment it determined to reform America's drinking habits.
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Well, we surely have a chance if we switch from "two-stepping" to "twelve-stepping," if we are
willing to receive that grace of God which can sustain and strengthen us
in any catastrophe.
17.
If he gets the idea that you are
a nag or a killjoy, your chance of accomplishing anything useful may be zero.
18.
Nearly all A.A.'s have found, too, that unless they develop much more of this precious quality than may be required
just for sobriety, they still haven't much chance of becoming truly happy.
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With a proper display of honesty and morality, we'd
stand a better chance of getting what we really wanted.
22.
We simply couldn't afford to
take the chance of letting self-appointed members present themselves as messiahs representing
A.A. before the whole public.
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Surely, then, a novice ought not lay himself open to the chance of making foolish, perhaps tragic, blunders in this fashion.
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More often than not, it is imperative that a man's brain be cleared before he is approached, as
he has then a better chance of
understanding and accepting what we have to offer.
28.
Should they accept and practice spiritual principles, there is a much
better chance that the head of the family will recover.
29.
Or we may just procrastinate, telling
ourselves the time is not
yet, when in reality we have
already passed up many a fine
chance to right a serious wrong.
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If he is already committed to an institution, but can convince you and your doctor
that he means business, give him a chance to try our method, unless the doctor thinks his mental condition too abnormal or
dangerous.
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At last experience taught us that to take away any alcoholic's full chance was sometimes to pronounce his death sentence, and often to condemn him to endless misery.
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It is not by chance we were given the power to reason, to examine the evidence of our senses, and
to draw conclusions.
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