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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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Of course we finally did experiment, and when unexpected results followed, we felt different; in fact we knew different; and so we were sold on meditation and prayer.
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I knew everyone would buy a few bottles, or cases, of liquor as their exchequers
permitted, and that it would soon be gone.
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Many a distracted wife has visited this house to find loving and understanding
companionship among women who knew her problem, to hear from the lips of their husbands what had
happened to them, to be advised how her own wayward mate might be hospitalized and approached when next he stumbled.
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I used to get terribly upset when I saw my friends drink and knew I could not, but I
schooled myself to believe that though I once had the same privilege, I had abused it
so frightfully that it was withdrawn.
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They pointed out that the Foundation board already knew of a total of half a million dollars set aside for A.A. in the wills of people still alive.
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Only a few knew of it at first but, within a short time, it was billboarded throughout
the entire company.
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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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Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.
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At the Foundation(*) and intergroup offices, we
couldn't employ nonalcoholics as secretaries; we had to have people who knew the A.A. pitch.
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I knew then.
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Each needed to consider the others, and in
abiding faith they knew they must find their real strength.
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Though they knew they must help other alcoholics if they
would remain sober, that motive became secondary.
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Possibly, too, we were still handicapped by many liabilities, great and small, we never knew we had.
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We knew we would have to quit
the deadly business of living alone with our conflicts, and in honesty
confide these to God and another human being.
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Our moral inventory had persuaded us that all-round
forgiveness was desirable, but it was only when we resolutely tackled Step Five that we inwardly knew we'd be able to receive forgiveness and give it,
too.
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Of far more importance was the fact that
he was the first living human with whom I had ever talked, who knew what he was talking about in regard to alcoholism from actual experience.
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Someone who knew what he was
talking about once remarked that pain was the touchstone of all spiritual progress.
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