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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

needless
needlessly
needn't
NEEDS   occurs   21 times 12 in BB  •  9 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
See also...   need
ne'er
negative
neglect

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1.
  ... needs.  BB There Is A Solution, p.20
Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we may help meet their needs.


2.
  ... needs.  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
New acquaintances who know nothing of alcoholism might be made and thoughtful considerations given their needs.


3.
  ... needs.  BB To Employers, p.141
It may be just the jolt he needs.


4.
  ... needs, and our most desperate ones, too.  12&12 Step Three, p.36
Silently and surely, electricity, that strange energy so few people understand, meets our simplest daily needs, and our most desperate ones, too.


5.
  ... needs and work for them.  BB How It Works, p.70
We think of their needs and work for them.


6.
  ... needs are cared for.  BB Working With Others, p.98
He clamors for this or that, claiming he cannot master alcohol until his material needs are cared for.


7.
  ... needs hospitalization, he should have it, but ...  BB Working With Others, p.91
If your man needs hospitalization, he should have it, but not forcibly unless he is violent.


8.
  ... needs is well defined by that part ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.102
And we think that the whole range of our needs is well defined by that part of Step Eleven which says: "...knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out."


9.
  ... needs no God to explain it.  BB We Agnostics, p.49
We read wordy books and indulge in windy arguments, thinking we believe this universe needs no God to explain it.


10.
  ... needs of the Fellowship itself.  12&12 Foreword, p.16
The basic principles of A.A., as they are known today, were borrowed mainly from the fields of religion and medicine, though some ideas upon which success finally depended were the result of noting the behavior and needs of the Fellowship itself.


11.
  ... needs other alcoholics as much as they ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.133
He needs other alcoholics as much as they need him.


12.
  ... needs the least possible organization.  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.565
9. Each A.A. group needs the least possible organization.


13.
  ... needs the least possible organization."  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.172
When Tradition Nine was first written, it said that "Alcoholics Anonymous needs the least possible organization."


14.
  ... needs the least possible organization.  12&12 Tradition Nine (Long), p.191
Nine -- Each A.A. group needs the least possible organization.


15.
  ... needs to be changed in me and ...  BB Acceptance, p.417
I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.


16.
  ... needs to be changed in the world ...  BB Acceptance, p.417
I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.


17.
  ... needs to be looked after and extricated ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.118
As matters get worse, the husband becomes a sick and irresponsible child who needs to be looked after and extricated from endless scrapes and impasses.


18.
  ... needs to develop the quality of willingness.  12&12 Step Three, p.40
All by himself, and in the light of his own circumstances, he needs to develop the quality of willingness.


19.
  ... needs to do is to keep sober.  BB Into Action, p.82
Sometimes we hear an alcoholic say that the only thing he needs to do is to keep sober.


20.
  ... needs were met or not.  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
Seldom did we look at character-building as something desirable in itself, something we would like to strive for whether our instinctual needs were met or not.


21.
  ... needs your help.  BB Working With Others, p.90
Don't deal with him when he is very drunk, unless he is ugly and the family needs your help.


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