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If his arrangements would only stay put, if only people would do as he wished,
the show would be great.
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During these years, I drank as much as my purse permitted, still without paying too great a penalty, although I was beginning to have morning
"jitters" at times.
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But if a willing start is made, then the great advantages of doing this will so quickly reveal themselves that the
pain will be lessened as one obstacle after another melts away.
6.
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?
7.
Possibly, too, we were still handicapped by many liabilities, great and small, we never knew we had.
8.
They figured the town needed a great big alcoholic center, a kind of pilot plant A.A. groups could duplicate everywhere.
9.
Maybe this sounds as though the alcoholics in A.A. had suddenly gone peaceable, and become one great big happy
family.
10.
Then perhaps life, as it has
a way of doing, suddenly hands us a great big lump
that we can't begin to swallow, let alone digest.
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This to the end that our great blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation
of Him who presides over us
all.
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This to the end that our great blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation
of Him who presides over us
all.
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Employers learn that great corporations have set their approval upon us, and wish to discover what can be done about
alcoholism in their own firms.
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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.
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It must be remembered that
I had read a great deal and talked to everyone who knew, or thought they knew anything about the subject
of alcoholism.
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We do talk about each other a great deal, but we almost invariably temper such talk by a spirit of love and tolerance.
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This had little effect
however for I kept on drinking and used a great deal more
hard liquor than in former years.
27.
By a great deal of ardent Twelfth Step work we sometimes carry the message to so many alcoholics that they place
us in a position of trust.
28.
We, who have collectively seen a great deal of business life, at least from the alcoholic angle, had to smile at this gentleman's sincere opinion.
29.
I seemed to be able to snap back the next morning better than most of my fellow
drinkers, who were cursed
(or perhaps blessed) with
a great deal of morning-after nausea.
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Much of the everyday talk we hear, and a great deal of what we read, highlights man's pride in his own achievements.
33.
As we shall see, he now means a great deal to his community, and the major liabilities of thirty years of hard drinking have been repaired
in four.
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Men who had liquor shipped in from Boston or New York by express were looked upon with great distrust and disfavor by
most of the good townspeople.
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Another great dividend we may expect from
confiding our defects to
another human being is humility -- a word often misunderstood.
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See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others.
41.
Yet we do go to great extremes to provide each other with these very things, when such action is warranted.
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This is the Great Fact for us.
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The great fact is just this, and nothing less: That we have had deep and effective spiritual experiences(*) which have revolutionized our whole
attitude toward life, toward our fellows and toward God's universe.
44.
Realization dawns that
he is but a small part of a
great whole; that no personal sacrifice is too great for preservation of the Fellowship.
45.
They spoke with great freedom from embarrassment, which I could never do, and they seemed very much at ease on all occasions and appeared very healthy.
46.
More realism and therefore more honesty about ourselves are
the great gains we make under the influence of Step Five.
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As this tide offering top public approval swept in, we realized that it could do us incalculable good or great harm.
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Volunteer committeemen and assistants could be of great
help, but they could not be expected to carry this load day in and day out.
52.
A spot-check inventory taken in the midst of such disturbances can be of very
great help in quieting stormy emotions.
53.
Yet it is our great hope that all those who have as yet found no
answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will presently join us on the high road to a new freedom.
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This mighty urge is the root of great human accomplishments,
a creative energy that deeply influences our lives.
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In spite of the great increase in the size and the span of this Fellowship, at
its core it remains simple and personal.
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There is a good bit of travel between East and West and we foresee a great increase in this helpful interchange.
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It may mean the loss of many nights' sleep, great interference with your pleasures, interruptions to your business.
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We are like the passengers
of a great liner the moment after rescue from shipwreck when
camaraderie, joyousness and democracy
pervade the vessel from steerage to Captain's table.
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To Christ I conceded the
certainty of a great man, not too closely followed by those who claimed Him.
65.
The emphasis on inventory is heavy only because a great many of us have never really acquired the habit of accurate self-appraisal.
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But that would be in great measure.
68.
The section called "The Doctor's Opinion" has been kept intact, just as it was originally written in 1939 by the late Dr. William D. Silkworth, our
Society's great medical benefactor.
69.
We won't have far to seek; the
great men and women of all religions have
left us a wonderful supply.
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When that happens, our great
natural assets, the instincts, have turned into
physical and mental liabilities.
73.
Notwithstanding the great necessity for discussing ourselves
with someone, it may be one is
so situated that there is no
suitable person available.
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That was great news to us, for
we had assumed we could not make use of spiritual principles unless we accepted many things on faith which seemed difficult to believe.
76.
From great numbers of such experiences, we could
predict that the doubter
who still claimed that he
hadn't got the "spiritual angle," and who still considered his well-loved A.A. group the higher power, would presently love God and call Him by name.
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But it was by no means sure that such great numbers of yet erratic people could live and work together with harmony and good effect.
79.
The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker.
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This was only a beginning, though if honestly and humbly made, an effect, sometimes a very great one, was felt at once.
82.
To any questioning or criticism of his actions he
instantly proffers his
reliance upon prayer for guidance in all matters great or small.
83.
Without this proof the expectant purchaser would
be forced to depart empty handed with none of what I later came to believe was the great panacea for all human ills.
84.
It is the great paradox of A.A. that we know we can seldom keep the precious gift of sobriety unless we give it away.
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Therefore, a great responsibility fell upon us to develop the best possible public relations policy for Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Save for a few brief moments of temptation the thought of
drink has never returned; and at such times a great revulsion has risen up in him.
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Some of us once had great self-confidence, but it
didn't fully solve the fear problem, or any other.
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This dream world has been replaced by a great sense of purpose, accompanied by a growing
consciousness of the power of God in our lives.
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Moreover, it had performed a great service for Alcoholics Anonymous, because it had
been humbly willing to apply the lessons it learned.
97.
When we have finally admitted without reservation that we are powerless over alcohol, we are apt to breathe a great sigh of relief, saying, "Well, thank God that's over!
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His alcoholic problem
was so complex, and his depression so great, that we
felt his only hope would be through what we then called
"moral psychology," and
we doubted if even that would
have any effect.
103.
In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has.
104.
This is the baffling feature of alcoholism as
we know it -- this utter inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or the wish.
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Back again in their caves, alcoholics would reproach us and say, "What a
great thing A.A. might have been!"
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We want to leave you with the
feeling that no situation is too difficult and no unhappiness too great to be
overcome.
113.
When thus out of joint, man's natural desires cause him great trouble, practically all
the trouble there is.
114.
A great turning point in our lives came when we sought for humility as something we
really wanted, rather than as something we
must have.
115.
Tradition One -- "Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity." Without unity, A.A. dies. Individual liberty, yet great unity. Key to paradox: each A.A.'s life depends on obedience to spiritual principles.
The group must survive or the individual
will not. Common welfare comes first. How best to live and work together as groups.
116.
If our circumstances happened to be good, we no longer dreaded a change for the worse, for we had learned that
these troubles could be turned into great values.
117.
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to
that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism
as an illness, the social
stigma associated with
this condition is being blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to
have been a great venture in
social pioneering which
forged a new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind."
118.
Sometimes they were so inaccessible that it seemed as though a great wall had been built around them.
119.
If all those rules had been in
effect everywhere, nobody could have possibly joined A.A. at all, so great was the sum of our anxiety and fear.
120.
A great wave of outraged resentment engulfed the meeting, sweeping every member to a single resolve: "Out he goes!"
121.
If at these points our emotional disturbance
happens to be great, we will more surely keep our balance, provided we remember, and repeat to ourselves, a particular
prayer or phrase that has appealed to us in our reading or meditation.
122.
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.
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Realization dawns that
he is but a small part of a
great whole; that no personal sacrifice is too great for preservation of the Fellowship.
126.
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