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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... excuse for
avoiding an inventory.
12&12
Step Four, p.45
2.
... excuse for
drinking, who exhibited splendid judgment ...
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.40
The story he told is most instructive, for here was a
chap absolutely convinced he had to stop drinking, who had no excuse for drinking, who exhibited splendid judgment and determination in all his other concerns, yet was flat on his back nevertheless.
3.
... excuse for
minimizing or forgetting our own.
12&12
Step Eight, p.78
Triumphantly we seize
upon his misbehavior as
the perfect excuse for minimizing or forgetting our own.
4.
... excuse for
shying away from the subject ...
BB
Into Action, p.77
5.
... excuse for
taking the first drink.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.37
But there was always the curious mental phenomenon that parallel
with our sound reasoning
there inevitably ran some
insanely trivial excuse for taking the first drink.
6.
... excuse, or
none.
BB
To Wives, p.107
7.
... excuse to
drink more.
BB
To Wives, p.111
8.
... excuse to
postpone.
BB
Into Action, p.75
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