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1.
  ... make a beginning, and keep trying.  12&12 Step Six, p.68
The only urgent thing is that we make a beginning, and keep trying.


2.
  ... make a beginning as soon as you ...  12&12 Step Five, p.61
If this is the situation, by all means do so, for you ought to make a beginning as soon as you can.


3.
  ... make a beginning on this lifetime job.  12&12 Step Six, p.65
So Step Six -- "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character" -- is A.A.'s way of stating the best possible attitude one can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime job.


4.
  ... make a brand new venture into open-mindedness.  12&12 Step Six, p.68
If we would gain any real advantage in the use of this Step on problems other than alcohol, we shall need to make a brand new venture into open-mindedness.


5.
  ... make a burning issue out of such ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.135
She sees she was wrong to make a burning issue out of such a matter when his more serious ailments were being rapidly cured.


6.
  ... make a careful review of our progress ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.89
Then there are those occasions when alone, or in the company of our sponsor or spiritual adviser, we make a careful review of our progress since the last time.


7.
  ... make a decision and tell his story, ...  BB Working With Others, p.96
Let him know you are available if he wishes to make a decision and tell his story, but do not insist upon it if he prefers to consult someone else.


8.
  ... make a decision to turn our will ...  12&12 Step Three, p.38
So it is by circumstance rather than by any virtue that we have been driven to A.A., have admitted defeat, have acquired the rudiments of faith, and now want to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to a Higher Power.


9.
  ... make a face-to-face admission of our wretched ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
We got a pretty severe shock when we realized that we were preparing to make a face-to-face admission of our wretched conduct to those we had hurt.


10.
  ... make a fair start on the new ...  BB To Wives, p.120
Perhaps your husband will make a fair start on the new basis, but just as things are going beautifully he dismays you by coming home drunk.


11.
  ... make a full revelation would seriously harm ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.86
That will arise in the occasional situation where to make a full revelation would seriously harm the one to whom we are making amends.


12.
  ... make a fuss over them.  BB The Family Afterward, p.126
They want him to make a fuss over them.


13.
  ... make a general admission of our defects.  12&12 Step Nine, p.84
At this first sitting, it is necessary only that we make a general admission of our defects.


14.
  ... make a living, we had a feeling ...  BB We Agnostics, p.52
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn't make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn't seem to be of real help to other people -- was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we should see newsreels of lunar flight?


15.
  ... make a mighty beginning, and he senses ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.109
His own character may still be gravely defective, but he somehow knows that God has enabled him to make a mighty beginning, and he senses that he stands at the edge of new mysteries, joys, and experiences of which he had never even dreamed.


16.
  ... make a public statement exonerating his rival?  BB Into Action, p.80
How could he possibly make a public statement exonerating his rival?


17.
  ... make a rough survey of his conduct ...  12&12 Step Four, p.50
Using his best judgment of what has been right and what has been wrong, he might make a rough survey of his conduct with respect to his primary instincts for sex, security, and society.


18.
  ... make a serene and useful existence, at ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.121
And these were fears which would make a serene and useful existence, at any financial level, quite impossible.


19.
  ... make a serious attempt to probe them, ...  12&12 Step Four, p.44
The minute we make a serious attempt to probe them, we are liable to suffer severe reactions.


20.
  ... make a settlement with the fundamental principle ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.108
Yet we knew we had to make a settlement with the fundamental principle of Step Six.


21.
  ... make a skeptic out of anyone.  BB Into Action, p.83
We must remember that ten or twenty years of drunkenness would make a skeptic out of anyone.


22.
  ... make a vigorous attempt to repair the ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.77
First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop the best possible relations with every human being we know.


23.
  ... make A.A. itself your 'higher power.'  12&12 Step Two, p.27
You can, if you wish, make A.A. itself your 'higher power.'


24.
  ... make A.A. more effective, how to do ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.178
Let it be noted, too, that they were almost always concerned with ways to make A.A. more effective, how to do the most good for the most alcoholics.


25.
  ... make alcoholics of our kind like other ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.30
Neither does there appear to be any kind of treatment which will make alcoholics of our kind like other men.


26.
  ... make all the other hours of our ...  12&12 Step Ten, pp.89-90
For these minutes and sometimes hours spent in self-examination are bound to make all the other hours of our day better and happier.


27.
  ... make alliances, or enter public controversies.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xix
And in no circumstances should we give endorsements, make alliances, or enter public controversies.


28.
  ... make amends.  BB Bill's Story, p.8
What would I not give to make amends.


29.
  ... make amends.  BB Into Action, p.76
We have a list of all persons we have harmed and to whom we are willing to make amends.


30.
  ... make amends as fast and as far ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.87
But all of them do require a complete willingness to make amends as fast and as far as may be possible in a given set of conditions.


31.
  ... make amends quickly if we have harmed ...  BB Into Action, p.84
We discuss them with someone immediately and make amends quickly if we have harmed anyone.


32.
  ... make amends to them all.  BB How It Works, p.59
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.


33.
  ... make amends to them all."  12&12 Contents (Step Eight), p.7
Step Eight -- "Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all."


34.
  ... make amends to them all."  12&12 Step Eight, p.77
"Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all."


35.
  ... make amends where we have done harm, ...  BB How It Works, p.69
We must be willing to make amends where we have done harm, provided that we do not bring about still more harm in so doing.


36.
  ... make an accurate and really exhaustive survey ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.79
Though in some cases we cannot make restitution at all, and in some cases action ought to be deferred, we should nevertheless make an accurate and really exhaustive survey of our past life as it has affected other people.


37.
  ... make any difference.  BB To Wives, p.108
We realize some men are thoroughly bad-intentioned, that no amount of patience will make any difference.


38.
  ... make any wife or child neurotic.  BB The Family Afterward, p.122
A doctor said to us, "Years of living with an alcoholic is almost sure to make any wife or child neurotic.


39.
  ... make astonishing recoveries and become our greatest ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.140
How could we know that thousands of these sometimes frightening people were to make astonishing recoveries and become our greatest workers and intimate friends?


40.
  ... make back in the 1920's.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
Handing it to me, he continued, 'This shows the kind of money the hospital used to make back in the 1920's.


41.
  ... make-believe have eventually seen the childishness of ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
Those of us who have spent much time in the world of spiritual make-believe have eventually seen the childishness of it.


42.
  ... make clear three pertinent ideas:  BB How It Works, p.60
Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:


43.
  ... make contact with or take membership in ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
Though the family has no religious connections, they may wish to make contact with or take membership in a religious body.


44.
  ... make daily living with us as practicing ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.81
Such a roster of harms done others -- the kind that make daily living with us as practicing alcoholics difficult and often unbearable -- could be extended almost indefinitely.


45.
  ... make direct personal contact at all.  12&12 Step Nine, p.83
There will be other cases where action ought to be deferred, and still others in which by the very nature of the situation we shall never be able to make direct personal contact at all.


46.
  ... make each of them wish to retaliate, ...  BB How It Works, p.61
And do not his actions make each of them wish to retaliate, snatching all they can get out of the show?


47.
  ... make few social engagements.  BB To Wives, p.105
We could make few social engagements.


48.
  ... make for usefulness.  BB The Family Afterward, p.132
So we think cheerfulness and laughter make for usefulness.


49.
  ... make good.  BB Into Action, p.78
We may be short in our accounts and unable to make good.


50.
  ... make good.  BB To Wives, p.118
He wants to make good.


51.
  ... make good.  BB To Employers, p.146
Your man should be on his mettle to make good.


52.
  ... make good Twelfth Step work possible, perhaps ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.110
We can be the ones who take on the unspectacular but important tasks that make good Twelfth Step work possible, perhaps arranging for the coffee and cake after the meetings, where so many skeptical, suspicious newcomers have found confidence and comfort in the laughter and talk.


53.
  ... make haste to reassure you.  BB We Agnostics, p.46
Let us make haste to reassure you.


54.
  ... make helpful suggestions.  BB To Employers, p.145
If he speaks of his home situation, you can undoubtedly make helpful suggestions.


55.
  ... make him desperately unhappy and threaten his ...  12&12 Step Three, p.39
They simply will not budge; they make him desperately unhappy and threaten his newfound sobriety.


56.
  Make him feel absolutely free to come ...  BB To Wives, p.120
Make him feel absolutely free to come and go as he likes.


57.
  ... make hospital arrangements, and entreat their wives ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.133
The founder and his friends channel spirituality to newcomers, hire halls, make hospital arrangements, and entreat their wives to brew gallons of coffee.


58.
  ... make inquiries.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.180
Clergymen see articles in their church journals and also make inquiries.


59.
  ... make it and gets drunk all over ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.22
Then comes the day when he simply cannot make it and gets drunk all over again.


60.
  Make it clear that he is not ...  BB Working With Others, p.94
Make it clear that he is not under pressure, that he needn't see you again if he doesn't want to.


61.
  ... make it emphatic that he does not ...  BB Working With Others, p.93
If the man be agnostic or atheist, make it emphatic that he does not have to agree with your conception of God.


62.
  Make it plain he is under no ...  BB Working With Others, p.94
Make it plain he is under no obligation to you, that you hope only that he will try to help other alcoholics when he escapes his own difficulties.


63.
  ... make it possible for me to earn ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
It was really a horrible nightmare, this earning money, getting liquor, smuggling it home, getting drunk, morning jitters, taking large doses of sedatives to make it possible for me to earn more money, and so on ad nauseam.


64.
  ... make it possible for the rest to ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.155
We'd gather up derelicts from skid rows, sort out those who could get well, and make it possible for the rest to earn their livelihood in a kind of quarantined confinement.


65.
  ... make it stick, let alone mete out ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.173
Neither its General Service Conference, its Foundation Board,(*) nor the humblest group committee can issue a single directive to an A.A. member and make it stick, let alone mete out any punishment.


66.
  ... make large sums of money to carry ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.155
Maybe these places would make large sums of money to carry on our other good works.


67.
  ... make lifelong friends.  BB A Vision For You, p.152
Among them you will make lifelong friends.


68.
  ... make little difference.  BB We Agnostics, p.50
Whether we agree with a particular approach or conception seems to make little difference.


69.
  ... make little headway in this new adventure ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.77
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.


70.
  ... make many fast friends and a fellowship ...  BB Bill's Story, p.15
We commenced to make many fast friends and a fellowship has grown up among us of which it is a wonderful thing to feel a part.


71.
  ... make many resolutions, but never a decision.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
They are over-remorseful and make many resolutions, but never a decision.


72.
  ... make me a channel of thy peace ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.99
"Lord, make me a channel of thy peace -- that where there is hatred, I may bring love -- that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness -- that where there is discord, I may bring harmony -- that where there is error, I may bring truth -- that where there is doubt, I may bring faith -- that where there is despair, I may bring hope -- that where there are shadows, I may bring light -- that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.


73.
  ... make mistakes.  12&12 Step Ten, p.91
The quick inventory is aimed at our daily ups and downs, especially those where people or new events throw us off balance and tempt us to make mistakes.


74.
  ... make mistakes, but if you are in ...  BB To Wives, p.117
You will make mistakes, but if you are in earnest they will not drag you down.


75.
  ... make money out of their A.A. connections, ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.161
We took this violent new tack because here and there members had tried to make money out of their A.A. connections, and we feared we'd be exploited.


76.
  ... make more passions possible.  12&12 Step Four, p.44
We have drunk to escape the guilt of passions, and then have drunk again to make more passions possible.


77.
  ... make mortar without sand?  BB Into Action, p.75
Have we tried to make mortar without sand?


78.
  ... make much of his life until self-searching ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.88
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.


79.
  ... make much sense when a real tosspot ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
It doesn't make much sense when a real tosspot calls a kettle black.


80.
  ... make my beginning.  BB Bill's Story, p.12
Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning.


81.
  ... make new friends and is sure to ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.132
If he does not argue about religion, he will make new friends and is sure to find new avenues of usefulness and pleasure.


82.
  ... make no bones about our drinking; they ...  BB Into Action, p.78
Telling them what we are trying to do, we make no bones about our drinking; they usually know it anyway, whether we think so or not.


83.
  ... make no great difference, even if I ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
Therefore it would make no great difference, even if I should do some drinking.


84.
  ... make no request for ourselves only.  BB Into Action, p.87
We ask especially for freedom from self-will, and are careful to make no request for ourselves only.


85.
  ... make only partial restitution, lest complete disclosures ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.83
There will be those to whom we can make only partial restitution, lest complete disclosures do them or others more harm than good.


86.
  ... make our admissions to Him directly?  12&12 Step Five, p.59
Why don't we make our admissions to Him directly?


87.
  ... make our apologies.  12&12 Step Nine, p.84
Against this background we can freely admit the damage we have done and make our apologies.


88.
  ... make our peace, and so we listed ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.108
We had to begin to make our peace, and so we listed the people we had harmed and became willing to set things right.


89.
  ... make our will conform with God's that ...  12&12 Step Three, p.40
It is when we try to make our will conform with God's that we begin to use it rightly.


90.
  ... make out whether he wanted to stop ...  BB A Vision For You, p.158
He proved to be a devil-may-care young fellow whose parents could not make out whether he wanted to stop drinking or not.


91.
  ... make progress in the building of character.  12&12 Step Six, p.65
He asks only that we try as best we know how to make progress in the building of character.


92.
  ... make regular use of prayer would no ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.97
Those of us who have come to make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine.


93.
  ... make restitution at all, and in some ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.79
Though in some cases we cannot make restitution at all, and in some cases action ought to be deferred, we should nevertheless make an accurate and really exhaustive survey of our past life as it has affected other people.


94.
  ... make restitution for harm done?  12&12 Step One, p.24
Who wants to confess his faults to another and make restitution for harm done?


95.
  ... make right.  BB Into Action, p.80
He felt that he had done a wrong he could not possibly make right.


96.
  ... make satisfactory progress.  BB Into Action, p.78
Rarely do we fail to make satisfactory progress.


97.
  ... make some definite and valuable suggestions.  BB Into Action, p.86
Yet, we believe we can make some definite and valuable suggestions.


98.
  ... make some interesting discoveries.  BB To Employers, p.149
You may make some interesting discoveries.


99.
  ... make suggestions, and very mild ones at ...  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.173
But long ago, trustees and staff members alike found they could do no more than make suggestions, and very mild ones at that.


100.
  ... make terms.  BB To Employers, p.145
If he owes you money you may wish to make terms.


101.
  ... make the admission of hopelessness.  12&12 Step One, p.23
Many less desperate alcoholics tried A.A., but did not succeed because they could not make the admission of hopelessness.


102.
  ... make the approach and to effect a ...  BB We Agnostics, p.46
Our own conception, however inadequate, was sufficient to make the approach and to effect a contact with Him.


103.
  ... make the belated discovery that they are ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.134
And so they make the belated discovery that they are really servants, not senators.


104.
  ... make the call," and extracted from my ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
Wishing to be polite, though I felt very badly, I said, "Let's make the call," and extracted from my wife a promise that we would not stay over fifteen minutes.


105.
  ... make the change in our attitude which ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.76
The Seventh Step is where we make the change in our attitude which permits us, with humility as our guide, to move out from ourselves toward others and toward God.


106.
  ... make the crosses of others heavier.  12&12 Step Nine, p.86
It does not lighten our burden when we recklessly make the crosses of others heavier.


107.
  ... make the decision to exert himself.  12&12 Step Three, p.40
When he acquires willingness, he is the only one who can make the decision to exert himself.


108.
  ... make the effort.  BB There Is A Solution, pp.25-26
This we did because we honestly wanted to, and were willing to make the effort.


109.
  ... make the family financially insecure.  12&12 Step Four, p.51
But the alcoholic housewife can also make the family financially insecure.


110.
  ... make the grade."  BB To Employers, p.138
If he has your will power and guts, he will make the grade."


111.
  ... make the supreme sacrifice rather than continue ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
There are many situations which arise out of the phenomenon of craving which cause men to make the supreme sacrifice rather than continue to fight.


112.
  ... make their point.  12&12 Tradition Six, p.157
Of course, they would use the resources of radio, press, and films to make their point.


113.
  ... make them so.  BB The Family Afterward, p.127
We know there are difficult wives and families, but the man who is getting over alcoholism must remember he did much to make them so.


114.
  ... make them unhappy.  BB Into Action, p.74
It may be one of our own family, but we cannot disclose anything to our wives or our parents which will hurt them and make them unhappy.


115.
  ... make these arrangements our actor may sometimes ...  BB How It Works, p.61
In trying to make these arrangements our actor may sometimes be quite virtuous.


116.
  ... make these sacrifices that gives people their ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.184
It is A.A.'s proved willingness to make these sacrifices that gives people their high confidence in our future.


117.
  ... make things safer, the promoter organized three ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
To make things safer, the promoter organized three corporations and became president of them all.


118.
  ... make this increasingly possible is the purpose ...  12&12 Step Three, p.40
To make this increasingly possible is the purpose of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, and Step Three opens the door.


119.
  ... make this recommendation with some confidence.  BB To Wives, p.114
We make this recommendation with some confidence.


120.
  ... make too hard terms with those who ...  BB We Agnostics, p.46
We found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him.


121.
  ... make Twelfth Step work possible.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.168
The job was not to do Twelfth Step work; it was to make Twelfth Step work possible.


122.
  ... make under the influence of Step Five.  12&12 Step Five, p.58
More realism and therefore more honesty about ourselves are the great gains we make under the influence of Step Five.


123.
  ... make up for lost time.  BB The Family Afterward, p.126
He is straining every nerve to make up for lost time.


124.
  ... make-up, just as much as the feeling ...  BB We Agnostics, p.55
We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend.


125.
  ... make up more than one-fourth of the ...  BB Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
Women now make up more than one-fourth of the membership; among newer members, the proportion is nearly one-third.


126.
  ... make up others' minds for them.  BB The Family Afterward, p.132
As non-denominational people, we cannot make up others' minds for them.


127.
  ... make up the deficiency.  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
Instead of developing new channels of activity for themselves, mother and children demand that he stay home and make up the deficiency.


128.
  ... make up the self-centered person; and we ...  BB To Wives, p.116
We wives found that, like everybody else, we were afflicted with pride, self-pity, vanity and all the things which go to make up the self-centered person; and we were not above selfishness or dishonesty.


129.
  ... make-up which caused our failure.  BB How It Works, p.64
First, we searched out the flaws in our make-up which caused our failure.


130.
  ... make us feel elated.  12&12 Step Ten, pp.91-92
For no people have ever loved personal triumphs more than we have loved them; we drank of success as of a wine which could never fail to make us feel elated.


131.
  ... make us, let us say, the group's ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.111
They make us, let us say, the group's chairman.


132.
  ... make us miserably ineffective.  12&12 Step Ten, p.90
A burst of temper could spoil a day, and a well-nursed grudge could make us miserably ineffective.


133.
  ... make us more useful to others.  BB There Is A Solution, p.19
Most of us sense that real tolerance of other people's shortcomings and viewpoints and a respect for their opinions are attitudes which make us more useful to others.


134.
  ... make use of his services with other ...  BB To Employers, p.146
After your man has gone along without drinking for a few months, you may be able to make use of his services with other employees who are giving you the alcoholic run-around -- provided, of course, they are willing to have a third party in the picture.


135.
  ... make use of our experience, we are ...  BB A Vision For You, p.153
Should you wish them above all else, and be willing to make use of our experience, we are sure they will come.


136.
  ... make use of spiritual principles unless we ...  BB We Agnostics, p.47
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.


137.
  Make use of what they offer.  BB Into Action, p.87
Make use of what they offer.


138.
  ... make was that if the man followed ...  BB To Employers, p.138
The only answer I could make was that if the man followed the usual pattern, he would go on a bigger bust than ever.


139.
  ... make will be cases where our disclosure ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.85
The only exceptions we will make will be cases where our disclosure would cause actual harm.


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