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


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1.
  ... else?  BB More About Alcoholism, p.37
How can such a lack of proportion, of the ability to think straight, be called anything else?


2.
  ... else.  BB We Agnostics, p.44
But after a while we had to face the fact that we must find a spiritual basis of life -- or else.


3.
  ... else.  BB We Agnostics, p.54
In one form or another we had been living by faith and little else.


4.
  ... else:  BB We Agnostics, p.56
It crowded out all else:


5.
  ... else.  BB How It Works, p.64
It destroys more alcoholics than anything else.


6.
  ... else.  BB Into Action, p.73
Unwilling to be honest with these sympathetic men, we were honest with no one else.


7.
  ... else?  BB Into Action, p.81
How could she be anything else?


8.
  ... else.  BB Working With Others, p.96
Let him know you are available if he wishes to make a decision and tell his story, but do not insist upon it if he prefers to consult someone else.


9.
  ... else.  BB To Wives, p.112
Do not ask that he do it for you or anyone else.


10.
  ... else.  BB The Family Afterward, pp.125-126
He may either plunge into a frantic attempt to get on his feet in business, or he may be so enthralled by his new life that he talks or thinks of little else.


11.
  ... else.  BB The Family Afterward, p.128
He is unable to focus on anything else.


12.
  ... else.  BB The Family Afterward, p.129
During those first days of convalescence, this will do more to insure his sobriety than anything else.


13.
  ... else.  12&12 Step Three, p.39
Surely he must now depend upon Somebody or Something else.


14.
  ... else.  12&12 Step Four, p.43
Suppose a person places sex desire ahead of everything else.


15.
  ... else.  12&12 Step Four, p.49
But the testimony of A.A.'s who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else.


16.
  ... else.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.121
Complete financial security we must have -- or else.


17.
  ... else.  12&12 Tradition Four, p.147
In charting this enormous expanse of freedom, we found it necessary to post only two storm signals: A group ought not do anything which would greatly injure A.A. as a whole, nor ought it affiliate itself with anything or anybody else.


18.
  ... else."  12&12 Tradition Five, p.154
At the time, I couldn't have bought anything else."


19.
  ... else.  12&12 Tradition Six, p.157
That made good newspaper copy, but little else.


20.
  ... else; a state of mind which became ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
My whole life seemed to be centered around doing what I wanted to do, without regard for the rights, wishes, or privileges of anyone else; a state of mind which became more and more predominant as the years passed.


21.
  ... else all their life story.  BB Into Action, p.73
But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness and honesty, in the sense we find it necessary, until they told someone else all their life story.


22.
  ... else, and be willing to make use ...  BB A Vision For You, p.153
Should you wish them above all else, and be willing to make use of our experience, we are sure they will come.


23.
  ... else, at least on the surface.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
Before we leveled off a bit, A.A. looked more like one prodigious squabble than anything else, at least on the surface.


24.
  ... else's, but when an honest effort is ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.114
Our basic troubles are the same as everyone else's, but when an honest effort is made "to practice these principles in all our affairs," well-grounded A.A.'s seem to have the ability, by God's grace, to take these troubles in stride and turn them into demonstrations of faith.


25.
  ... else can.  BB Working With Others, p.89
You can help when no one else can.


26.
  ... else can survive unless he carries the ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.130
Neither he nor anybody else can survive unless he carries the A.A. message.


27.
  ... else could be?  12&12 Tradition Two, p.133
Who else could be?


28.
  ... else could or would.  BB To Wives, p.105
We have believed them when no one else could or would.


29.
  ... else could or would do.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.167
Ignoring the fact that these labors were not Twelfth Step jobs at all, the critics attacked as A.A. professionals these workers of ours who were often doing thankless tasks that no one else could or would do.


30.
  ... else do the same thing, we still ...  12&12 Step Five, p.57
Until we had talked with complete candor of our conflicts, and had listened to someone else do the same thing, we still didn't belong.


31.
  ... else fall by the wayside.  12&12 Step Seven, pp.73-74
But again we are driven on by the inescapable conclusion which we draw from A.A. experience, that we surely must try with a will, or else fall by the wayside.


32.
  ... else) for our troubles.  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.


33.
  ... else for the more difficult and deeper ...  12&12 Step Five, p.61
It may turn out, however, that you'll choose someone else for the more difficult and deeper revelations.


34.
  ... else given an opportunity to get well.  BB To Employers, p.147
They often jeopardize their own positions by trying to help serious drinkers who should have been fired long ago, or else given an opportunity to get well.


35.
  ... else He is nothing.  BB We Agnostics, p.53
When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing.


36.
  ... else how.  12&12 Tradition Six, p.156
Having learned to live so happily, we'd show everybody else how.


37.
  ... else in A.A.  12&12 Step Four, p.46
They comfort the melancholy one by first showing him that his case is not strange or different, that his character defects are probably not more numerous or worse than those of anyone else in A.A.


38.
  ... else, in God's hands.  BB To Wives, p.120
If a repetition is to be prevented, place the problem, along with everything else, in God's hands.


39.
  ... else into this?"  12&12 Step Five, p.59
Why do we need to bring anyone else into this?"


40.
  ... else is not counted as some special ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
Let us reemphasize that this reluctance to fight one another or anybody else is not counted as some special virtue which makes us feel superior to other people.


41.
  ... else, it is well that a man ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.127
Since the home has suffered more than anything else, it is well that a man exert himself there.


42.
  ... else most of us will finally die ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
We alcoholics see that we must work together and hang together, else most of us will finally die alone.


43.
  ... else of great moment is apt to ...  12&12 Step Five, p.62
And when humility and serenity are so combined, something else of great moment is apt to occur.


44.
  ... else, save the spineless and stupid.  BB To Employers, p.139
You cannot see why it should be to anyone else, save the spineless and stupid.


45.
  ... else stands in judgment.  BB The Family Afterward, p.135
Though he is now a most effective member of Alcoholics Anonymous, he still smokes and drinks coffee, but neither his wife nor anyone else stands in judgment.


46.
  ... else that was to become an A.A. ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.149
Then he did something else that was to become an A.A. classic.


47.
  ... else to console him -- not always another ...  BB To Wives, p.111
He may seek someone else to console him -- not always another man.


48.
  ... else, we were afflicted with pride, self-pity, ...  BB To Wives, p.116
We wives found that, like everybody else, we were afflicted with pride, self-pity, vanity and all the things which go to make up the self-centered person; and we were not above selfishness or dishonesty.


49.
  ... else, what will become of me?  12&12 Step Three, p.36
If I keep on turning my life and my will over to the care of Something or Somebody else, what will become of me?


50.
  Else why would we consume such great ...  12&12 Step Six, p.67
Else why would we consume such great amounts of time wishing for what we have not, rather than working for it, or angrily looking for attributes we shall never have, instead of adjusting to the fact, and accepting it?


51.
  ... else will be prejudiced for as long ...  BB We Agnostics, p.48
Sometimes this was a tedious process; we hope no one else will be prejudiced for as long as some of us were.


52.
  ... else would.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.116
We found that dependence upon His perfect justice, forgiveness, and love was healthy, and that it would work where nothing else would.


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