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Little by little, mother and children will see they ask too much, and father will see he gives too little.
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If we do not do so, we shall stand convicted of emotional sterility and
of having lost the faith that
moves mountains, without which medicine can
do little.
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The idea that we can be possessively loving of a
few, can ignore the many, and can continue to fear or hate anybody, has to be abandoned, if only a little at
a time.
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Little by little, mother and children will see they ask too much, and father will see he gives too little.
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For the type of alcoholic
who is able and willing to get well, little charity, in the ordinary sense of the word, is needed or wanted.
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If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for
alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the
most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted
and encouraged this movement.
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Little clusters of twos and threes and fives of us have sprung up in other communities, through contact with our two larger centers.
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We have seen A.A.'s suffer lingering and fatal illness with little complaint, and often in good cheer.
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If, when you honestly want
to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic.
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So that was it -- last summer
an alcoholic crackpot;
now, I suspected, a little cracked about religion.
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If we keep on the way we are going there is little doubt that much good will result, but the surface of the
problem would hardly be scratched.
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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.
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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.
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Some who feel they have done well may dispute this, so let's try to think it through a little further.
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Seeing much of each other, scarce an evening passed that someone's home did not shelter a little gathering of men and women, happy in their release, and constantly thinking how
they might present their discovery to some newcomer.
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We know that little good can come to any alcoholic who joins A.A. unless he has first accepted his devastating
weakness and all its consequences.
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Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing survey of the human wreckage he has left in his wake.
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This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope of his recovery.
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Though the aggregate of
recoveries resulting
from psychiatric effort
is considerable, we physicians must admit we have made little impression upon the problem as a whole.
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One instance comes to mind in which a malicious individual was
always making friendly little jokes about an alcoholic's drinking exploits.
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I had had some success at speculation, so we had a little money, but we once worked on a farm for a month to avoid drawing on our small capital.
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4. Because every time I do it I take out a little more insurance for myself against a possible slip.
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Little by little, mother and children will see they ask too much, and father will see he gives too little.
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If you both show a willingness to remedy your
own defects, there will be little need to criticize each other.
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This brought a rush of 800 frantic inquiries into the little New York office which meanwhile had
been established.
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The notion that we would still live our own lives, God helping a little now and then, began to evaporate.
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As soon as we begin to feel confident in our new way of life and have begun, by our behavior and example, to convince those about us that
we are indeed changing for
the better, it is usually
safe to talk in complete frankness with those who have been seriously
affected, even those who may be only a little or
not at all aware of what we have done to them.
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Though our decision was a
vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us.
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Established on such a footing we became less and less interested in ourselves,
our little plans and designs.
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When such thoughts break in, we might recall, a
little ruefully, how much store we used to set by imagination as it tried to
create reality out of bottles.
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We now see that when we began to drink deliberately, instead of
casually, there was little
serious or effective thought during the period of premeditation
of what the terrific consequences might be.
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Without a willing and persistent effort to do
this, there can be little sobriety or contentment
for us.
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Who, for example, doesn't like to feel just a little superior to the next fellow, or even quite a lot superior?
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Some day we hope that Alcoholics Anonymous will help the public to a better realization of the gravity of the alcoholic problem, but we shall be of
little use if our attitude is one of bitterness or hostility.
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It mattered little whether we had sat on the shore of life drinking ourselves into forgetfulness or had plunged in recklessly and
willfully beyond our depth and ability.
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Our friends have counseled chucking the men and we have done so with finality, only to be back in a
little while hoping, always hoping.
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It was fortunate, for my old
business associates remained skeptical for a
year and a half, during which I found little work.
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