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1.
  ... others.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
As part of his rehabilitation he commenced to present his conceptions to other alcoholics, impressing upon them that they must do likewise with still others.


2.
  ... others.  BB Bill's Story, p.13
Never was I to pray for myself, except as my requests bore on my usefulness to others.


3.
  ... others.  BB Bill's Story, p.14
They in turn might work with others.


4.
  ... others.  BB There Is A Solution, pp.19-20
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.


5.
  ... others.  BB How It Works, p.59
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.


6.
  ... others.  BB How It Works, p.70
If sex is very troublesome, we throw ourselves the harder into helping others.


7.
  ... others.  BB Into Action, p.74
The rule is we must be hard on ourself, but always considerate of others.


8.
  ... others.  BB Into Action, p.82
The alcoholic is like a tornado roaring his way through the lives of others.


9.
  ... others.  BB Into Action, p.84
No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.


10.
  ... others.  BB Into Action, p.86
But we must be careful not to drift into worry, remorse or morbid reflection, for that would diminish our usefulness to others.


11.
  ... others.  BB To Wives, pp.119-120
Both of you will awaken to a new sense of responsibility for others.


12.
  ... others.  BB The Family Afterward, p.123
Suppose we tell you some of the obstacles a family will meet; suppose we suggest how they may be avoided -- even converted to good use for others.


13.
  ... others.  BB The Family Afterward, p.124
Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the greatest possession you have -- the key to life and happiness for others.


14.
  ... others.  BB The Family Afterward, p.132
We have recovered, and have been given the power to help others.


15.
  ... others.  BB A Vision For You, p.159
It was transcended by the happiness they found in giving themselves for others.


16.
  ... others.  BB A Vision For You, p.164
See to it that your relationship with Him is right, and great events will come to pass for you and countless others.


17.
  ... others.  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
The Episcopal magazine, The Living Church, observes editorially: "The basis of the technique of Alcoholics Anonymous is the truly Christian principle that a man cannot help himself except by helping others.


18.
  ... others.  12&12 Contents (Step Four), p.6
Misguided moral inventory can result in guilt, grandiosity, or blaming others.


19.
  ... others.  12&12 Contents (Step Eight), p.7
Kinds of harm done to others.


20.
  ... others."  12&12 Contents (Step Nine), p.7
Step Nine -- "Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."


21.
  ... others.  12&12 Contents (Step Nine), pp.7-8
Peace of mind cannot be bought at the expense of others.


22.
  ... others.  12&12 Foreword, p.17
With the publication of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous" in 1939, the pioneering period ended and a prodigious chain reaction set in as the recovered alcoholics carried their message to still others.


23.
  ... others.  12&12 Step Two, p.29
We used our education to blow ourselves up into prideful balloons, though we were careful to hide this from others.


24.
  ... others.  12&12 Step Four, p.47
We had to see that when we harbored grudges and planned revenge for such defeats, we were really beating ourselves with the club of anger we had intended to use on others.


25.
  ... others.  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
Moreover, it is usually a fact that our behavior when drinking has aggravated the defects of others.


26.
  ... others.  12&12 Step Eight, p.80
If our tempers are consistently bad, we arouse anger in others.


27.
  ... others.  12&12 Step Eight, p.81
Suppose we lavish attention upon one member of the family and neglect the others.


28.
  ... others.  12&12 Step Eight, p.82
Whenever our pencil falters, we can fortify and cheer ourselves by remembering what A.A. experience in this Step has meant to others.


29.
  ... others."  12&12 Step Nine, p.83
"Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."


30.
  ... others.  12&12 Step Nine, p.84
While we may be quite willing to reveal the very worst, we must be sure to remember that we cannot buy our own peace of mind at the expense of others.


31.
  ... others.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.106
But certainly each genuine one has something in common with all the others.


32.
  ... others.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.116
We were still trying to find emotional security by being dominating or dependent upon others.


33.
  ... others.  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.174
Great suffering and great love are A.A.'s disciplinarians; we need no others.


34.
  ... others, a fourth turned up.  BB A Vision For You, p.158
After several failures to find others, a fourth turned up.


35.
  ... others' alcoholic troubles.  BB The Family Afterward, p.125
Everyone knows about the others' alcoholic troubles.


36.
  ... others and how we may help meet ...  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.


37.
  ... others, and in abiding faith they knew ...  12&12 Tradition One, p.131
Each needed to consider the others, and in abiding faith they knew they must find their real strength.


38.
  ... others, and in confidence laid the explosive ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.142
The oldest member summoned two others, and in confidence laid the explosive facts in their laps.


39.
  ... others and ourselves.  12&12 Step Four, p.43
We wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and ourselves.


40.
  ... others, and the necessity of belief in ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
Though he could not accept all the tenets of the Oxford Groups, he was convinced of the need for moral inventory, confession of personality defects, restitution to those harmed, helpfulness to others, and the necessity of belief in and dependence upon God.


41.
  ... others and toward God.  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.


42.
  ... others, and upon God.  12&12 Step Seven, p.76
We now clearly see that we have been making unreasonable demands upon ourselves, upon others, and upon God.


43.
  ... others, and we had come to believe ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.25
But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we had been living it.


44.
  ... others and who will be glad to ...  BB Working With Others, p.90
You should be described to him as one of a fellowship who, as part of their own recovery, try to help others and who will be glad to talk to him if he cares to see you.


45.
  ... others appear to have recovered.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxv
This man and over one hundred others appear to have recovered.


46.
  ... others are in the greatest need.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.102
Having opened our channel as best we can, we try to ask for those right things of which we and others are in the greatest need.


47.
  ... others are involved -- the wife who trembles ...  BB To Wives, p.104
But for every man who drinks others are involved -- the wife who trembles in fear of the next debauch; the mother and father who see their son wasting away.


48.
  ... others are loose.  BB How It Works, p.70
We realize that some people are as fanatical about sex as others are loose.


49.
  ... others are part of the cause, what ...  12&12 Step Four, p.52
And if the actions of others are part of the cause, what can I do about that?


50.
  ... others as he had worked with me.  BB Bill's Story, p.14
Particularly was it imperative to work with others as he had worked with me.


51.
  ... others as I would have them do ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.93
And we can often ask ourselves, "Am I doing to others as I would have them do to me -- today?"


52.
  ... others as well as for ourselves.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.104
It is A.A.'s experience that particularly in these cases we ought to pray that God's will, whatever it is, be done for others as well as for ourselves.


53.
  ... others, asked God to help and the ...  BB Into Action, p.80
If we have obtained permission, have consulted with others, asked God to help and the drastic step is indicated we must not shrink.


54.
  ... others at the same time, is the ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.87
For the readiness to take the full consequences of our past acts, and to take responsibility for the well-being of others at the same time, is the very spirit of Step Nine.


55.
  ... others, but only slowly in ourselves.  12&12 Step Four, p.47
We could perceive them quickly in others, but only slowly in ourselves.


56.
  Others came near putting Galileo to death ...  BB We Agnostics, p.51
Others came near putting Galileo to death for his astronomical heresies.


57.
  ... others can't, and still others who do ...  12&12 Step Two, p.25
Some of us won't believe in God, others can't, and still others who do believe that God exists have no faith whatever He will perform this miracle.


58.
  ... others "Catholic" or "Protestant."  12&12 Tradition Four, p.147
There would be real danger should we commence to call some groups "wet," others "dry," still others "Republican" or "Communist," and yet others "Catholic" or "Protestant."


59.
  ... others close to alcoholics. The foregoing pages ...  BB To Wives (Note), p.121
(*) The fellowship of Al-Anon Family Groups was formed about thirteen years after this chapter was written. Though it is entirely separate from Alcoholics Anonymous, it uses the general principles of the A.A. program as a guide for husbands, wives, relatives, friends and others close to alcoholics. The foregoing pages (though addressed only to wives) indicate the problems such people may face. Alateen, for teen-aged children of alcoholics, is a part of Al-Anon.


60.
  ... others concede to him, the more resentful ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.122
We find the more one member of the family demands that the others concede to him, the more resentful they become.


61.
  ... others could be cured maybe with a ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
The personality defects of others could be cured maybe with a loan.


62.
  ... others "dry," still others "Republican" or "Communist," ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.147
There would be real danger should we commence to call some groups "wet," others "dry," still others "Republican" or "Communist," and yet others "Catholic" or "Protestant."


63.
  ... others entered the field of alcohol education.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.167
Even greater furors were provoked when A.A. members began to run rest homes and farms for alcoholics, when some hired out to corporations as personnel men in charge of the alcoholic problem in industry, when some became nurses on alcoholic wards, when others entered the field of alcohol education.


64.
  ... others fail.  BB Working With Others, p.89
You can secure their confidence when others fail.


65.
  ... others failed to recognize my truly exceptional ...  12&12 Step Four, p.51
Or by griping that others failed to recognize my truly exceptional abilities?


66.
  ... others, fancied or real, had power to ...  BB How It Works, p.66
In that state, the wrong-doing of others, fancied or real, had power to actually kill.


67.
  ... others favorably, but criticism or ridicule coming ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.125
A man may criticize or laugh at himself and it will affect others favorably, but criticism or ridicule coming from another often produces the contrary effect.


68.
  Others fell apart because of sheer self-righteousness ...  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.176
Others fell apart because of sheer self-righteousness while trying to enforce upon the rest of mankind some millennium of their own specification.


69.
  ... others find we are soon overcome by ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.132
But those of us who have tried to shoulder the entire burden and trouble of others find we are soon overcome by them.


70.
  ... others for them.  12&12 Step Five, p.59
Or anger and hurt pride might be the smoke screen under which we were hiding some of our defects while we blamed others for them.


71.
  ... others from the stream of misery which ...  BB A Vision For You, p.163
Arrangements were also made with the chief psychiatrist of a large public hospital to select still others from the stream of misery which flows through that institution.


72.
  ... others had.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.137
Although none of the alcoholics we boarded seemed to get sober, some others had.


73.
  ... others had done or said?"  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
The question which might naturally come into your mind would be: "what did the man do or say that was different from what others had done or said?"


74.
  ... others had done, we resolutely looked for ...  BB How It Works, p.67
Putting out of our minds the wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes.


75.
  ... others has not been great, the emotional ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.79
In many instances we shall find that though the harm done others has not been great, the emotional harm we have done ourselves has.


76.
  ... others, have one symptom in common: they ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxx
All these, and many others, have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing the phenomenon of craving.


77.
  ... others, he could not survive the certain ...  BB Bill's Story, pp.14-15
For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead.


78.
  ... others he later helped?"  12&12 Tradition Three, p.145
What would have happened to him and all the others he later helped?"


79.
  ... others, he lays a basis for helpful ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.127
As each member of a resentful family begins to see his shortcomings and admits them to the others, he lays a basis for helpful discussion.


80.
  ... others heavier.  12&12 Step Nine, p.86
It does not lighten our burden when we recklessly make the crosses of others heavier.


81.
  Others hurried to place themselves before microphones ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.185
Others hurried to place themselves before microphones and cameras.


82.
  ... others in which by the very nature ...  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.


83.
  ... others involved.  12&12 Step Eight, p.82
We should avoid extreme judgments, both of ourselves and of others involved.


84.
  ... others is a fascinating adventure.  12&12 Contents (Step Eight), p.7
Learning to live with others is a fascinating adventure.


85.
  ... others is our code.  BB Into Action, p.84
Love and tolerance of others is our code.


86.
  ... others is our one aim.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Five), pp.10-11
The ability of each A.A. to identify himself with and bring recovery to the newcomer is a gift from God... passing on this gift to others is our one aim.


87.
  ... others is paramount, it is equally necessary ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.80
While the purpose of making restitution to others is paramount, it is equally necessary that we extricate from an examination of our personal relations every bit of information about ourselves and our fundamental difficulties that we can.


88.
  ... others is spirit of Step Nine.  12&12 Contents (Step Nine), p.8
Readiness to take consequences of our past and to take responsibility for well-being of others is spirit of Step Nine.


89.
  ... others is the foundation stone of your ...  BB Working With Others, p.97
Helping others is the foundation stone of your recovery.


90.
  ... others it may not.  BB To Employers, p.144
In some cases it will, and in others it may not.


91.
  ... others it seemed impossibly bad.  12&12 Step Two, p.30
In spots its morality was impossibly good; in others it seemed impossibly bad.


92.
  ... others like us is the one aim ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.151
This is our gift from God, and its bestowal upon others like us is the one aim that today animates A.A.'s all around the globe.


93.
  ... others may be by no means infallible, ...  12&12 Step Five, p.60
While the comment or advice of others may be by no means infallible, it is likely to be far more specific than any direct guidance we may receive while we are still so inexperienced in establishing contact with a Power greater than ourselves.


94.
  ... others may survive and rediscover life.  BB A Vision For You, p.153
Then you will know what it means to give of yourself that others may survive and rediscover life.


95.
  ... others' minds for them.  BB The Family Afterward, p.132
As non-denominational people, we cannot make up others' minds for them.


96.
  ... others more harm than good.  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.


97.
  ... others must be convinced of his new ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.135
The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt.


98.
  ... others, no matter how deeply we felt ...  12&12 Step Five, p.58
Often it was while working on this Step with our sponsors or spiritual advisers that we first felt truly able to forgive others, no matter how deeply we felt they had wronged us.


99.
  ... others not only of their worldly goods, ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.80
If we lie or cheat, we deprive others not only of their worldly goods, but of their emotional security and peace of mind.


100.
  ... others, of what we could pack into ...  BB Into Action, p.86
Or were we thinking of what we could do for others, of what we could pack into the stream of life?


101.
  ... others or by any calamity not of ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.116
These were the new attitudes that finally brought many of us an inner strength and peace that could not be deeply shaken by the shortcomings of others or by any calamity not of our own making.


102.
  ... others, or we were apt to be ...  12&12 Step Five, p.57
Either we were shy, and dared not draw near others, or we were apt to be noisy good fellows craving attention and companionship, but never getting it -- at least to our way of thinking.


103.
  ... others ought to know.  12&12 Step Five, p.61
Perhaps we shall need to share with this person facts about ourselves which no others ought to know.


104.
  ... others; purposeful forgetting.  12&12 Contents (Step Eight), p.7
Obstacles: reluctance to forgive; nonadmission of wrongs to others; purposeful forgetting.


105.
  ... others "Republican" or "Communist," and yet others ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.147
There would be real danger should we commence to call some groups "wet," others "dry," still others "Republican" or "Communist," and yet others "Catholic" or "Protestant."


106.
  ... others seem to be realized while ours ...  12&12 Step Four, p.49
Unreasonable fear that our instincts will not be satisfied drives us to covet the possessions of others, to lust for sex and power, to become angry when our instinctive demands are threatened, to be envious when the ambitions of others seem to be realized while ours are not.


107.
  ... others seldom can.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.150
Just as firmly bound by obligation are the members of Alcoholics Anonymous, who have demonstrated that they can help problem drinkers as others seldom can.


108.
  ... others showed us that "God-sufficiency" worked with ...  BB We Agnostics, p.52
When others showed us that "God-sufficiency" worked with them, we began to feel like those who had insisted the Wrights would never fly.


109.
  ... others slip when the family came back ...  BB Working With Others, p.100
We have seen others slip when the family came back too soon.


110.
  ... others, so never hesitate to go anywhere ...  BB Working With Others, p.102
Your job now is to be at the place where you may be of maximum helpfulness to others, so never hesitate to go anywhere if you can be helpful.


111.
  ... others solve their problems by a simple ...  BB We Agnostics, p.52
When we saw others solve their problems by a simple reliance upon the Spirit of the Universe, we had to stop doubting the power of God.


112.
  ... others started in the club, pitched a ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.148
Some would start at the top and come through to the bottom, becoming club members; others started in the club, pitched a binge, were hospitalized, then graduated to education on the third floor.


113.
  ... others taking with impunity.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, pp.xxviii-xxix
They are restless, irritable and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks -- drinks which they see others taking with impunity.


114.
  ... others; that it reach all important decisions ...  BB Appendix VII, Twelve Concepts (Short Form), p.575
XII. The Conference shall observe the spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of unqualified authority over others; that it reach all important decisions by discussion, vote, and, whenever possible, by substantial unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; that it never perform acts of government, and that, like the Society it serves, it will always remain democratic in thought and action.


115.
  ... others -- the kind that make daily living ...  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.


116.
  ... others, the things which matter so much ...  BB A Vision For You, p.161
Being wrecked in the same vessel, being restored and united under one God, with hearts and minds attuned to the welfare of others, the things which matter so much to some people no longer signify much to them.


117.
  ... others, the word "God" brought up a ...  BB We Agnostics, p.45
To others, the word "God" brought up a particular idea of Him with which someone had tried to impress them during childhood.


118.
  ... others, then the need to quit living ...  12&12 Step Five, p.55
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.


119.
  ... others to face life again, there will ...  BB A Vision For You, pp.163-164
When a few men in this city have found themselves, and have discovered the joy of helping others to face life again, there will be no stopping until everyone in that town has had his opportunity to recover -- if he can and will.


120.
  ... others to health.  BB A Vision For You, p.153
In the chapter "Working With Others" you gathered an idea of how we approach and aid others to health.


121.
  ... others to join us?  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.182
Provided they were willing -- and many were -- why shouldn't their membership be publicized, thereby encouraging others to join us?


122.
  ... others, to lust for sex and power, ...  12&12 Step Four, p.49
Unreasonable fear that our instincts will not be satisfied drives us to covet the possessions of others, to lust for sex and power, to become angry when our instinctive demands are threatened, to be envious when the ambitions of others seem to be realized while ours are not.


123.
  ... others to our own willful desires, they ...  12&12 Step Four, p.53
When we habitually try to manipulate others to our own willful desires, they revolt, and resist us heavily.


124.
  ... others to recover from alcoholism.  Grapevine Preamble
A.A. Preamble -- Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.


125.
  ... others to save himself from the alcoholic ...  BB Into Action, p.79
Therefore, we are not to be the hasty and foolish martyr who would needlessly sacrifice others to save himself from the alcoholic pit.


126.
  ... others to understand him, when in actuality ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.94
Or, the person concerned not being present, we thought we were helping others to understand him, when in actuality our true motive was to feel superior by pulling him down.


127.
  ... others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see ...  BB Working With Others, p.89
To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends -- this is an experience you must not miss.


128.
  ... others, unhappiness follows.  12&12 Step Four, p.44
Every time a person imposes his instincts unreasonably upon others, unhappiness follows.


129.
  ... others, was our own besetting evil.  12&12 Step Two, p.30
Self-righteousness, the very thing that we had contemptuously condemned in others, was our own besetting evil.


130.
  ... others, we are quite sure to drink.  BB How It Works, p.70
If we are not sorry, and our conduct continues to harm others, we are quite sure to drink.


131.
  ... others, "We are right and you are ...  12&12 Step Three, p.37
Each fragment says to the others, "We are right and you are wrong."


132.
  ... others, we can now commence to ransack ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.81
Having carefully surveyed this whole area of human relations, and having decided exactly what personality traits in us injured and disturbed others, we can now commence to ransack memory for the people to whom we have given offense.


133.
  ... others, we often discover a greater challenge ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.114
But also like others, we often discover a greater challenge in the lesser and more continuous problems of life.


134.
  ... others were wrong was as far as ...  BB How It Works, p.66
To conclude that others were wrong was as far as most of us ever got.


135.
  ... others what they had found, or be ...  BB A Vision For You, p.158
So, you see, there were three alcoholics in that town, who now felt they had to give to others what they had found, or be sunk.


136.
  ... others which are just as disturbing to ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.73
And we cling with a passionate persistence to others which are just as disturbing to our equilibrium, because we still enjoy them too much.


137.
  ... others which cannot be met without perverting ...  12&12 Step Four, p.49
Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or upon others which cannot be met without perverting or misusing our God-given instincts.


138.
  ... others who became our able and persistent ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
Another reason for the wide acceptance of A.A. was the ministration of friends -- friends in medicine, religion, and the press, together with innumerable others who became our able and persistent advocates.


139.
  ... others who do believe that God exists ...  12&12 Step Two, p.25
Some of us won't believe in God, others can't, and still others who do believe that God exists have no faith whatever He will perform this miracle.


140.
  ... others who encounter heavy financial reverses.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.114
Though the earning power of most A.A.'s is relatively high, we have some members who never seem to get on their feet moneywise, and still others who encounter heavy financial reverses.


141.
  ... others who had tried to help him ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, pp.185-186
He also wanted to tell others who had tried to help him -- his doctor, his minister, and close friends.


142.
  ... others, who have since recovered, of their ...  BB Working With Others, p.96
He often says that if he had continued to work on them, he might have deprived many others, who have since recovered, of their chance.


143.
  ... others who still suffered the same fears ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.122
When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too.


144.
  ... others who suffer how we were given ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.124
Showing others who suffer how we were given help is the very thing which makes life seem so worth while to us now.


145.
  ... others who want and need it badly.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
I spend a great deal of time passing on what I learned to others who want and need it badly.


146.
  ... others who were still happily unaware of ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.79
There were cases, too, where we had damaged others who were still happily unaware of being hurt.


147.
  ... others, why do I lack the ability ...  12&12 Step Four, p.52
Or, if my disturbance was seemingly caused by the behavior of others, why do I lack the ability to accept conditions I cannot change?


148.
  ... others will be helped.  BB Into Action, p.87
We may ask for ourselves, however, if others will be helped.


149.
  ... others will call it an index of ...  12&12 Step Four, p.48
Still others will call it an index of maladjustments.


150.
  ... others will relapse periodically until they really ...  12&12 Step Five, p.56
Some people are unable to stay sober at all; others will relapse periodically until they really clean house.


151.
  ... others will think of this list as ...  12&12 Step Four, p.48
Some others will think of this list as defects of character.


152.
  ... others with similar problems ... In this atmosphere ...  BB Appendix III, The Medical View on A.A., p.570
They help others with similar problems ... In this atmosphere the alcoholic often overcomes his excessive concentration upon himself.


153.
  ... others -- women and men -- they can devote ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
In partnership with others -- women and men -- they can devote themselves to any number of ideas, people, and constructive projects.


154.
  ... others would surely destroy us.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.140
Any others would surely destroy us.


155.
  ... Others" you gathered an idea of how ...  BB A Vision For You, p.153
In the chapter "Working With Others" you gathered an idea of how we approach and aid others to health.


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