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

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FUNCTION   occurs   13 times 4 in BB  •  9 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
See also...   functions
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fundamentally

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1.
  ... function.  12&12 Contents (Step Four), p.6
How instincts can exceed their proper function.


2.
  ... function.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.134
Such are the simple services that enable the group to function.


3.
  ... function.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.161
Despite these misgivings, we had to recognize the fact that A.A. had to function.


4.
  ... function?" and, "How can A.A. best stay ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous are, we A.A.'s believe, the best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can A.A. best stay whole and so survive?"


5.
  ... function as human beings, we had taken ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.71
Instead of regarding the satisfaction of our material desires as the means by which we could live and function as human beings, we had taken these satisfactions to be the final end and aim of life.


6.
  ... function at all? How can they possibly ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.130
"How," they ask, "can such a crowd of anarchists function at all? How can they possibly place their common welfare first? What in Heaven's name holds them together?"


7.
  ... function, but at the same time it ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.175
A.A. has to function, but at the same time it must avoid those dangers of great wealth, prestige, and entrenched power which necessarily tempt other societies.


8.
  ... function can very often lie in preparing ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.569
Dr. Harry M. Tiebout, psychiatrist: "As a psychiatrist, I have thought a great deal about the relationship of my specialty to A.A. and I have come to the conclusion that our particular function can very often lie in preparing the way for the patient to accept any sort of treatment or outside help.


9.
  ... function effectively.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xix
As we discovered the principles by which the individual alcoholic could live, so we had to evolve principles by which the A.A. groups and A.A. as a whole could survive and function effectively.


10.
  ... function is to grow in understanding and ...  BB Into Action, p.84
Our next function is to grow in understanding and effectiveness.


11.
  ... function, it has to be habitable and ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.167
If a club is going to function, it has to be habitable and hospitable.


12.
  ... function without full-time service workers.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Eight), p.11
A.A. could not function without full-time service workers.


13.
  ... function without full-time workers.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.168
Neither could A.A. itself function without full-time workers.


The 164 and More™ Book, eBook, and Web Site are all CONCORDANCES which display passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous, the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, and the A.A. Grapevine (A.A. Preamble only).  Sorting and rendering passages in the proprietary format of the 164 and More concordance does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc., or the A.A. Grapevine, Inc.  Further A.A.W.S. Inc. and the A.A. Grapevine Inc. have no objection to the use of this material in the 164 and More concordance.

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