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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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to view that page in the literature.1.
Since the third edition was
published in 1976, worldwide membership of
A.A. has just about doubled, to an estimated two million or more, with nearly 100,800 groups meeting in approximately 150 countries around the world.
2.
In that brief space, Alcoholics Anonymous has
mushroomed into nearly 6,000 groups whose membership is far above 150,000 recovered alcoholics.
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Nearly all A.A.'s have found, too, that unless they develop much more of this precious quality than may be required
just for sobriety, they still haven't much chance of becoming truly happy.
4.
In nearly all cases, their ideals must be grounded in a power greater than themselves,
if they are to re-create their
lives.
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Nearly all have recovered.
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Even before our drinking got bad and people began to cut us off, nearly all of us suffered the feeling that we didn't quite belong.
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It is significant, now
that almost no A.A. in our Fellowship breaks anonymity at the public level, that nearly all these fears have subsided.
10.
Since defective relations with other human beings have nearly always been the immediate cause of our woes, including our alcoholism, no field of investigation
could yield more satisfying and valuable
rewards than this one.
11.
The alcoholic, realizing what his wife has endured, and now fully understanding how
much he himself did to damage her and his children,
nearly always takes up his marriage responsibilities with a willingness to repair what
he can and to accept what he can't.
12.
13.
Nearly anyone could submit a good list of such defects as these, and few of us
would seriously think of
giving them up, at least until they cause us excessive misery.
14.
This sometimes nearly drove me back to drink, but I soon found that when all other measures failed, work with another alcoholic would save the day.
15.
Hence it was most evident
that a solitary self-appraisal, and the admission of our defects based upon that alone, wouldn't be nearly enough.
16.
Of course, there is such a thing as incompatibility, but in nearly every instance the alcoholic
only seems to be unloving
and inconsiderate; it is usually because he is warped and sickened that he
says and does these appalling things.
17.
Nearly every modern employer feels a moral responsibility for the well-being of his help, and he tries to meet these responsibilities.
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By temperament, nearly every one of us had been an irrepressible promoter, and the prospect
of a society composed almost entirely of promoters was frightening.
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... nearly every
practical purpose, the active voice ...
BB
Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.574
II. The General Service Conference of A.A. has become, for nearly every practical purpose, the active voice and the effective conscience of
our whole Society in its world affairs.
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Doesn't nearly every society on earth give authority to some of its members to impose obedience upon the rest and to punish or expel offenders?
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Nearly every sound human being experiences, at some
time in life, a compelling desire to find a mate of the opposite sex with whom the fullest possible union can be made -- spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical.
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Women now make up more
than one-fourth of the membership; among newer members, the proportion is nearly one-third.
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