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


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1.
  ... out.  BB Preface, p.xii
Six of the stories in Part II have been carried over, eleven new ones have been added, and eleven taken out.


2.
  ... out.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xviii
Each inquiry was painstakingly answered; pamphlets and books were sent out.


3.
  ... out.  BB Bill's Story, p.15
I have seen hundreds of families set their feet in the path that really goes somewhere; have seen the most impossible domestic situations righted; feuds and bitterness of all sorts wiped out.


4.
  ... out.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.33
We doubt if many of them can do it, because none will really want to stop, and hardly one of them, because of the peculiar mental twist already acquired, will find he can win out.


5.
  ... out.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.37
The insane idea won out.


6.
  ... out.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.38
You would expect him, if he were normal, to cut it out.


7.
  ... out.  BB How It Works, p.59
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.


8.
  ... out.  BB Into Action, p.72
Now these are about to be cast out.


9.
  ... out.  BB To Wives, p.120
You, as well as your husband, ought to think of what you can put into life instead of how much you can take out.


10.
  ... out.  BB The Family Afterward, p.128
They may not see why their love and devotion did not straighten him out.


11.
  ... out.  BB To Employers, pp.136-137
Another time, as I opened a letter which lay on my desk, a newspaper clipping fell out.


12.
  ... out.  BB To Employers, p.147
The firm wants to help you get over it, and if you are interested, there is a way out.


13.
  ... out.(*)  BB To Employers, p.150
I have enjoyed every moment spent in getting them straightened out.(*)


14.
  ... out.  BB A Vision For You, p.153
They will approach still other sick ones and fellowships of Alcoholics Anonymous may spring up in each city and hamlet, havens for those who must find a way out.


15.
  ... out.  BB A Vision For You, p.157
The two friends spoke of their spiritual experience and told him about the course of action they carried out.


16.
  ... out!  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
This worked nicely until my wife and I went to see Wallace Beery in "Tugboat Annie," after which the pant-leg and stocking racket were out!


17.
  ... out.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
It was the day before Mother's Day and I had come home plastered, carrying a big potted plant which I set down on the table and forthwith went upstairs and passed out.


18.
  ... out.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
I did not want to disgrace myself so I then checked out.


19.
  ... out."  12&12 Contents (Step Eleven), p.8
Step Eleven -- "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out."


20.
  ... out.  12&12 Contents (Step Eleven), p.8
Daily petitions for understanding of God's will and grace to carry it out.


21.
  ... out."  12&12 Step Eleven, p.96
"Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out."


22.
  ... out."  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."


23.
  ... out.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.102
We ask simply that throughout the day God place in us the best understanding of His will that we can have for that day, and that we be given the grace by which we may carry it out.


24.
  ... out?  12&12 Step Twelve, p.119
How do they come out?


25.
  ... out.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
Yes -- whenever they try hard to seek them out.


26.
  ... out.  12&12 Tradition One, p.131
On anvils of experience, the structure of our Society was hammered out.


27.
  ... out.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.139
You can declare yourself in; nobody can keep you out.


28.
  ... out.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.139
We don't want to keep you out.


29.
  ... out.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.140
So beggars, tramps, asylum inmates, prisoners, queers, plain crackpots, and fallen women were definitely out.


30.
  ... out."  12&12 Tradition Three, p.143
They said firmly, "You can't talk like this around here. You'll have to quit it or get out."


31.
  ... out.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.144
In fragments, his story came out.


32.
  ... out.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.151
Under these compulsions of self-preservation, duty, and love, it is not strange that our Society has concluded that it has but one high mission -- to carry the A.A. message to those who don't know there's a way out.


33.
  ... out.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.160
Always, we've had our hands out.


34.
  ... out.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.169
Volunteer committeemen and assistants could be of great help, but they could not be expected to carry this load day in and day out.


35.
  ... out."  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.173
Groups have tried to expel members, but the banished have come back to sit in the meeting place, saying, "This is life for us; you can't keep us out."


36.
  ... out.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.181
Let's see how these two contrasting ideas -- attraction and promotion -- work out.


37.
  ... out a dime, which clinked thinly as ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
Hastily, I dropped it back and fished out a dime, which clinked thinly as I dropped it in the hat.


38.
  ... out a little more insurance for myself ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.181
4. Because every time I do it I take out a little more insurance for myself against a possible slip.


39.
  ... out about alcoholism.  BB To Wives, p.112
Show him your copy of this book and tell him what you have found out about alcoholism.


40.
  ... out about his alcoholism.  BB A Vision For You, p.155
He told how he lived in constant worry about those who might find out about his alcoholism.


41.
  ... out against the idea of personal powerlessness.  12&12 Step One, p.21
Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness.


42.
  ... out all else:  BB We Agnostics, p.56
It crowded out all else:


43.
  ... out all you can about him.  BB Working With Others, p.90
When you discover a prospect for Alcoholics Anonymous, find out all you can about him.


44.
  ... out and built anew on bedrock.  12&12 Step Four, p.50
By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions: that his character defects, representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary cause of his drinking and his failure at life; that unless he is now willing to work hard at the elimination of the worst of these defects, both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude him; that all the faulty foundation of his life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock.


45.
  ... out and couldn't be relighted.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.139
Time after time, their uncertain flames blew out and couldn't be relighted.


46.
  ... out and urge more attention for yourself.  BB To Wives, p.119
It will do little good if you point that out and urge more attention for yourself.


47.
  ... out, and who wish to share our ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.125
We have been talking about problems because we are problem people who have found a way up and out, and who wish to share our knowledge of that way with all who can use it.


48.
  ... out another alcoholic and try again.  BB Working With Others, p.96
Search out another alcoholic and try again.


49.
  ... out any punishment.  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.


50.
  ... out as an evangelist or reformer.  BB Working With Others, p.89
Don't start out as an evangelist or reformer.


51.
  ... out, as it certainly will, "Yes, respecting ...  12&12 Step Three, p.35
But suppose that instinct still cries out, as it certainly will, "Yes, respecting alcohol, I guess I have to be dependent upon A.A., but in all other matters I must still maintain my independence.


52.
  ... out as they witness so much domestic ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.120
At first many of these feel lonely, hurt, and left out as they witness so much domestic happiness about them.


53.
  ... out because God deserted us.  12&12 Step Two, p.31
More often, though, we had met up with some major calamity, and to our way of thinking lost out because God deserted us.


54.
  ... out because I would surely get tight, ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
We could not be invited out because I would surely get tight, and my wife dared not invite people in for the same reason.


55.
  ... out by forgiving them, one and all?  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
If we are now about to ask forgiveness for ourselves, why shouldn't we start out by forgiving them, one and all?


56.
  ... out by worldly clamors, mostly those within ...  BB Bill's Story, p.12
But soon the sense of His presence had been blotted out by worldly clamors, mostly those within myself.


57.
  Out came his carpet slippers and a ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.32
Out came his carpet slippers and a bottle.


58.
  ... out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.37
In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk, feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry, depression, jealousy or the like.


59.
  ... out door panels, smashed treasured crockery, and ...  BB To Wives, p.106
They struck the children, kicked out door panels, smashed treasured crockery, and ripped the keys out of pianos.


60.
  ... out for blasphemy?  12&12 Tradition Three, p.145
Nowadays, when oldtimers who know Ed foregather, they exclaim, "What if we had actually succeeded in throwing Ed out for blasphemy?


61.
  ... out, for he had earnestly tried many ...  BB A Vision For You, p.155
He had a desperate desire to stop, but saw no way out, for he had earnestly tried many avenues of escape.


62.
  ... out for our arrest.  BB Into Action, p.79
She is indignant about it, and has a warrant out for our arrest.


63.
  ... out for posts of greater responsibility and ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.124
When by devoted service to family, friends, business, or community we attract widespread affection and are sometimes singled out for posts of greater responsibility and trust, we try to be humbly grateful and exert ourselves the more in a spirit of love and service.


64.
  ... out from here, to do your bidding.  BB Into Action, p.76
Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding.


65.
  ... out from my home town who managed ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
Finally my father had to send a doctor out from my home town who managed to get me back there in some way, and I was in bed about two months before I could venture out of the house.


66.
  ... out from ourselves toward others and toward ...  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.


67.
  ... out from under.  BB A Vision For You, p.152
We have shown how we got out from under.


68.
  ... "Out he goes!"  12&12 Tradition Three, p.143
A great wave of outraged resentment engulfed the meeting, sweeping every member to a single resolve: "Out he goes!"


69.
  ... out he races in front of a ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.38
But the day he comes out he races in front of a fire engine, which breaks his back.


70.
  ... out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics ...  BB Appendix IV, The Lasker Award, p.571
"The American Public Health Association presents a Lasker Group Award for 1951 to Alcoholics Anonymous in recognition of its unique and highly successful approach to that age-old public health and social problem, alcoholism ... In emphasizing alcoholism as an illness, the social stigma associated with this condition is being blotted out ... Historians may one day recognize Alcoholics Anonymous to have been a great venture in social pioneering which forged a new instrument for social action; a new therapy based on the kinship of common suffering; one having a vast potential for the myriad other ills of mankind."


71.
  ... out how he is falling down on ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.126
They criticize, pointing out how he is falling down on his spiritual program.


72.
  ... out, however, that you'll choose someone else ...  12&12 Step Five, p.61
It may turn out, however, that you'll choose someone else for the more difficult and deeper revelations.


73.
  ... out: "If there is a God, He ...  BB We Agnostics, p.56
Our friend's gorge rose as he bitterly cried out: "If there is a God, He certainly hasn't done anything for me!"


74.
  ... out if we didn't pay up.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
But finally he said it -- the landlord would put us out if we didn't pay up.


75.
  ... out in confusing the ends with the ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.71
Quite characteristically, we had gone all out in confusing the ends with the means.


76.
  ... out in his own way.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.101
Aided by such instruction and example as we can find, it is essentially an individual adventure, something which each one of us works out in his own way.


77.
  ... out in one of the clubs of ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
I would sometimes hide out in one of the clubs of which I was a member, and had the habit at times of registering at a hotel under a fictitious name.


78.
  ... out in the afternoon, I would get ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
If my wife was planning to go out in the afternoon, I would get a large supply of liquor and smuggle it home and hide it in the coal bin, the clothes chute, over door jambs, over beams in the cellar, and in cracks in the cellar tile.


79.
  ... out in welcome.  BB We Agnostics, p.53
Friendly hands had stretched out in welcome.


80.
  ... out, included many persons of local, national, ...  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.182
A.A., they pointed out, included many persons of local, national, or international fame.


81.
  ... out into the sun.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.98
Meditation is our step out into the sun.


82.
  ... out later that my wife inspected it ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.176
I found out later that my wife inspected it frequently.


83.
  ... out, "Look what you people have done ...  12&12 Step Two, p.25
How often have we heard them cry out, "Look what you people have done to us!


84.
  ... out looking over factories and managements, but ...  BB Bill's Story, p.2
I failed to persuade my broker friends to send me out looking over factories and managements, but my wife and I decided to go anyway.


85.
  ... out mentally and physically.  BB How It Works, p.64
When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically.


86.
  ... out 'No, never!'"  12&12 Step Twelve, p.108
We said to ourselves, "This I cannot do today, perhaps, but I can stop crying out 'No, never!'"


87.
  ... out, not only to more and more ...  BB Foreword to Third Edition, p.xxii
Surveys of groups in the United States and Canada indicate that A.A. is reaching out, not only to more and more people, but to a wider and wider range.


88.
  ... out notices of meetings.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.134
The secretary sees that literature is on the table, looks after the phone-answering service, answers the mail, and sends out notices of meetings.


89.
  ... out of A.A."  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.167
Caretakers who swept floors, cooks who fried hamburgers, secretaries in offices, authors writing books -- all these we have seen hotly assailed because they were, as their critics angrily remarked, "making money out of A.A."


90.
  ... out of A.A."  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.168
They weren't asked to speak at A.A. meetings because they were "making money out of A.A."


91.
  ... out of A.A.!"  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.170
More often than not, these onslaughts were spearheaded by the cry "Professionalism! That guy is making money out of A.A.!"


92.
  ... out of an alcoholic.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.31
Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic.


93.
  ... 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.


94.
  ... out of asylums and resume a vital ...  BB Bill's Story, p.15
I have seen men come out of asylums and resume a vital place in the lives of their families and communities.


95.
  ... out of bed to his knees.  BB We Agnostics, p.56
This man recounts that he tumbled out of bed to his knees.


96.
  ... out of bitter experience.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.39
This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash home upon our alcoholic readers as it has been revealed to us out of bitter experience.


97.
  ... out of bottles.  12&12 Step Eleven, p.100
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.


98.
  ... out of control, that our drinking even ...  12&12 Step One, p.23
By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a fatal progression.


99.
  ... out of countenance.  BB A Vision For You, p.161
Social distinctions, petty rivalries and jealousies -- these are laughed out of countenance.


100.
  ... out of every season of grief or ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.105
He will also report that out of every season of grief or suffering, when the hand of God seemed heavy or even unjust, new lessons for living were learned, new resources of courage were uncovered, and that finally, inescapably, the conviction came that God does "move in a mysterious way His wonders to perform."


101.
  ... out of existing groups, were referred to ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xviii
Businessmen, traveling out of existing groups, were referred to these prospective newcomers.


102.
  ... out of eyes which were slits in ...  12&12 Tradition Five, p.152
Decidedly unfriendly, he stared at me out of eyes which were slits in his red and swollen face.


103.
  ... out of hand and we became alcoholics.  12&12 Step Four, p.47
We thought "conditions" drove us to drink, and when we tried to correct these conditions and found that we couldn't to our entire satisfaction, our drinking went out of hand and we became alcoholics.


104.
  ... out of hand when drinking.  BB To Wives, p.109
He often gets entirely out of hand when drinking.


105.
  ... out of his cyclone cellar to find ...  BB Into Action, p.82
He is like the farmer who came up out of his cyclone cellar to find his home ruined.


106.
  ... out of his head.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.38
He tries every known means to get the jay-walking idea out of his head.


107.
  ... out of his office.  BB Into Action, p.78
It should not matter, however, if someone does throw us out of his office.


108.
  ... out of his till with amused skepticism.  BB Bill's Story, p.4
The local banker watched me whirl fat checks in and out of his till with amused skepticism.


109.
  ... out of ignorance of alcoholism.  BB To Wives, p.107
Some of them rose out of ignorance of alcoholism.


110.
  ... out of it.  12&12 Step Four, p.45
We wallow in this messy bog, often getting a misshapen and painful pleasure out of it.


111.
  ... out of it?'  12&12 Tradition Five, p.152
"His next question: 'What are you getting out of it?'


112.
  ... out of jobs, family, and friends will ...  12&12 Step Four, p.51
But all alcoholics who have drunk themselves out of jobs, family, and friends will need to cross-examine themselves ruthlessly to determine how their own personality defects have thus demolished their security.


113.
  ... out of joint, man's natural desires cause ...  12&12 Step Four, p.42
When thus out of joint, man's natural desires cause him great trouble, practically all the trouble there is.


114.
  ... out of liquor.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
One was the fear of not sleeping, and the other was the fear of running out of liquor.


115.
  ... out of liquor.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, pp.175-176
Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.


116.
  ... out of me."  12&12 Step Six, p.63
It was lifted right out of me."


117.
  ... out of mind we've been dependent upon ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.160
Time out of mind we've been dependent upon somebody, usually money-wise.


118.
  ... out of my brain, I decided that ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
When I got the fog out of my brain, I decided that quitting school was very foolish and that I had better return and continue my work.


119.
  ... out of my friends.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.138
Here was the true voice, welling up out of my friends.


120.
  ... out of my mouth than he pounced.  12&12 Tradition Five, pp.152-153
I'd no sooner got the word 'spiritual' out of my mouth than he pounced.


121.
  ... out of nothing, meaning nothing, whirling on ...  BB We Agnostics, p.54
Could we still say the whole thing was nothing but a mass of electrons, created out of nothing, meaning nothing, whirling on to a destiny of nothingness?


122.
  ... out of nothing, means nothing, and proceeds ...  BB We Agnostics, p.49
Were our contentions true, it would follow that life originated out of nothing, means nothing, and proceeds nowhere.


123.
  ... out of our effort to live on ...  BB Into Action, p.76
We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves.


124.
  ... out of our experience.  BB How It Works, p.70
These are facts out of our experience.


125.
  ... out of our lives.  12&12 Step Three, p.34
We can have faith, yet keep God out of our lives.


126.
  ... out of our minds the wrongs others ...  BB How It Works, p.67
Putting out of our minds the wrongs others had done, we resolutely looked for our own mistakes.


127.
  ... out of our way to understand and ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.93
With those we dislike we can begin to practice justice and courtesy, perhaps going out of our way to understand and help them.


128.
  ... out of ourselves.  BB How It Works, p.70
This takes us out of ourselves.


129.
  ... out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is ...  BB How It Works, p.62
They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example of self-will run riot, though he usually doesn't think so.


130.
  ... out of ourselves toward God.  12&12 Contents (Step Seven), p.7
Step Seven is change in attitude which permits us to move out of ourselves toward God.


131.
  ... out of painful ego-puncturing.  12&12 Step Seven, p.74
Our eyes begin to open to the immense values which have come straight out of painful ego-puncturing.


132.
  ... out of pianos.  BB To Wives, p.106
They struck the children, kicked out door panels, smashed treasured crockery, and ripped the keys out of pianos.


133.
  ... out of public controversy.  12&12 Tradition Ten, pp.178-179
As we surveyed the wreck of that movement, early A.A. members resolved to keep our Society out of public controversy.


134.
  ... out of reach.  BB We Agnostics, p.47
Afterward, we found ourselves accepting many things which then seemed entirely out of reach.


135.
  ... out of reach.  12&12 Step Four, p.43
Without a searching and fearless moral inventory, most of us have found that the faith which really works in daily living is still out of reach.


136.
  ... out of skipping in front of fast-moving ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.37
He gets a thrill out of skipping in front of fast-moving vehicles.


137.
  ... out of such a matter when his ...  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.


138.
  ... out of such misery, bad repute and ...  BB A Vision For You, p.153
How can they rise out of such misery, bad repute and hopelessness?


139.
  ... out of ten men drink their heads ...  BB To Employers, p.138
I pointed out that I had had nothing to drink whatever for three years, and this in the face of difficulties that would have made nine out of ten men drink their heads off.


140.
  ... out of ten the unexpected happens.  BB Into Action, p.78
In nine cases out of ten the unexpected happens.


141.
  ... out of the Bible -- a voice kept ...  12&12 Tradition Two, p.137
In fact, it came right out of the Bible -- a voice kept saying to me, 'The laborer is worthy of his hire.'


142.
  ... out of the first discussion.  BB Working With Others, p.91
Though you have talked with the family, leave them out of the first discussion.


143.
  ... out of the game forever, we had ...  12&12 Step Two, p.29
Finally, when all our score cards read 'zero,' and we saw that one more strike would put us out of the game forever, we had to look for our lost faith.


144.
  ... out of the house.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.175
Finally my father had to send a doctor out from my home town who managed to get me back there in some way, and I was in bed about two months before I could venture out of the house.


145.
  ... out of the occasion.  BB Working With Others, p.102
Do not think of what you will get out of the occasion.


146.
  ... out of the past.  BB The Family Afterward, p.132
Outsiders are sometimes shocked when we burst into merriment over a seemingly tragic experience out of the past.


147.
  ... out of the phenomenon of craving which ...  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.


148.
  ... out of the question.  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
As long as we placed self-reliance first, a genuine reliance upon a Higher Power was out of the question.


149.
  ... out of the show?  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?


150.
  ... out of the window.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.42
It meant I would have to throw several lifelong conceptions out of the window.


151.
  ... out of their A.A. connections, and we ...  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.


152.
  ... out of their confinement, and miraculously vanish ...  12&12 Step Five, p.62
The dammed-up emotions of years break out of their confinement, and miraculously vanish as soon as they are exposed.


153.
  ... out of their hiding places.  BB The Family Afterward, p.124
We think each family which has been relieved owes something to those who have not, and when the occasion requires, each member of it should be only too willing to bring former mistakes, no matter how grievous, out of their hiding places.


154.
  ... out of their own experience by the ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.42
They cited cases out of their own experience by the dozen.


155.
  Out of them we receive the stimulation ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.93
Out of them we receive the stimulation we need to go forward.


156.
  ... out of these, a certain amount of ...  BB To Employers, p.145
Wherever men are gathered together in business there will be rivalries and, arising out of these, a certain amount of office politics.


157.
  Out of this alloy of drink and ...  BB Bill's Story, p.2
Out of this alloy of drink and speculation, I commenced to forge the weapon that one day would turn in its flight like a boomerang and all but cut me to ribbons.


158.
  ... out of this controversy.  BB How It Works, p.69
We want to stay out of this controversy.


159.
  ... out of this frightening and at first ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xix
But out of this frightening and at first disrupting experience the conviction grew that A.A.'s had to hang together or die separately.


160.
  ... out of this vast welter of explosive ...  12&12 Foreword, p.18
It was out of this vast welter of explosive experience that A.A.'s Twelve Traditions took form and were first published in 1946 and later confirmed at A.A.'s First International Convention, held at Cleveland in 1950.


161.
  ... out of this world if he only ...  BB How It Works, p.61
Is he not a victim of the delusion that he can wrest satisfaction and happiness out of this world if he only manages well?


162.
  ... out of those scrapes.  BB Bill's Story, p.3
There had been no real infidelity, for loyalty to my wife, helped at times by extreme drunkenness, kept me out of those scrapes.


163.
  ... out of three -- began to return as ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xx
But great numbers of these -- about two out of three -- began to return as time passed.


164.
  ... out of town.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.144
Quite a while later, Ed got a sales job which took him out of town.


165.
  ... out of town before during this particular ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.41
I had been out of town before during this particular dry spell, so there was nothing new about that.


166.
  ... out of us as the drive to ...  12&12 Step Six, p.65
This does not mean that we expect all our character defects to be lifted out of us as the drive to drink was.


167.
  ... out of weakness.  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
We heard story after story of how humility had brought strength out of weakness.


168.
  ... out of which our lives were constructed?  BB We Agnostics, p.54
Were not these things the tissue out of which our lives were constructed?


169.
  ... out on a course of vigorous action, ...  BB How It Works, p.63
Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning, which many of us had never attempted.


170.
  ... out on other people?  12&12 Step Four, p.51
Did I take it out on other people?


171.
  ... out on which we can absolutely agree, ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.17
We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action.


172.
  ... out one's own will and one's own ...  12&12 Step Three, p.35
Already a willingness has been achieved to cast out one's own will and one's own ideas about the alcohol problem in favor of those suggested by A.A.


173.
  ... out, our husbands sneaked so many drinks ...  BB To Wives, p.105
When we were invited out, our husbands sneaked so many drinks that they spoiled the occasion.


174.
  ... out our increasing sensitivity to alcohol -- an ...  12&12 Step One, p.22
Relentlessly deepening our dilemma, our sponsors pointed out our increasing sensitivity to alcohol -- an allergy, they called it.


175.
  ... out our questions and answers.  12&12 Step Four, p.54
In this connection, it is wise to write out our questions and answers.


176.
  ... out our solution on the spiritual as ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
Though we work out our solution on the spiritual as well as an altruistic plane, we favor hospitalization for the alcoholic who is very jittery or befogged.


177.
  ... out, public acceptance of A.A. grew by ...  BB Foreword to Second Edition, pp.xix-xx
While the internal difficulties of our adolescent period were being ironed out, public acceptance of A.A. grew by leaps and bounds.


178.
  ... out, resentful and uncommunicative.  BB Into Action, p.81
After a few years with an alcoholic, a wife gets worn out, resentful and uncommunicative.


179.
  ... out right away.  BB To Wives, p.120
If not, it had better be found out right away.


180.
  ... out some insurance against a slip.  12&12 Tradition Five, p.151
Maybe I should take out some insurance against a slip.


181.
  ... out sordid places, hoping to find understanding ...  BB A Vision For You, p.151
Some of us sought out sordid places, hoping to find understanding companionship and approval.


182.
  ... out that awful jam that cost him ...  12&12 Step Three, p.39
And how shall he ever straighten out that awful jam that cost him the affection of his family and separated him from them?


183.
  ... out that his defects of character are ...  BB Working With Others, p.100
You should point out that his defects of character are not going to disappear over night.


184.
  ... out that I had had nothing to ...  BB To Employers, p.138
I pointed out that I had had nothing to drink whatever for three years, and this in the face of difficulties that would have made nine out of ten men drink their heads off.


185.
  ... out that our friend's life is still ...  12&12 Step Three, p.39
Of course the sponsor points out that our friend's life is still unmanageable even though he is sober, that after all, only a bare start on A.A.'s program has been made.


186.
  ... out that physical treatment is but a ...  BB To Employers, p.143
If your man accepts your offer, it should be pointed out that physical treatment is but a small part of the picture.


187.
  ... out that the Foundation board already knew ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.164
They pointed out that the Foundation board already knew of a total of half a million dollars set aside for A.A. in the wills of people still alive.


188.
  ... out that the irresponsible had become responsible, ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.165
They pointed out that the irresponsible had become responsible, and that by making financial independence part of its tradition, Alcoholics Anonymous had revived an ideal that its era had almost forgotten.


189.
  ... out that the newcomer has some assets ...  12&12 Step Four, p.46
The sponsor probably points out that the newcomer has some assets which can be noted along with his liabilities.


190.
  ... out that they agreed, and then got ...  BB To Wives, pp.107-108
Why was it, when these dangers were pointed out that they agreed, and then got drunk again immediately?


191.
  ... out that we alcoholics have much in ...  BB Working With Others, p.95
But point out that we alcoholics have much in common and that you would like, in any case, to be friendly.


192.
  ... out the consciousness of our intolerable situation ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.25
We were in a position where life was becoming impossible, and if we had passed into the region from which there is no return through human aid, we had but two alternatives: One was to go on to the bitter end, blotting out the consciousness of our intolerable situation as best we could; and the other, to accept spiritual help.


193.
  ... out the deep need every human being ...  12&12 Step Five, p.56
Psychiatrists and psychologists point out the deep need every human being has for practical insight and knowledge of his own personality flaws and for a discussion of them with an understanding and trustworthy person.


194.
  ... out the door.  BB A Vision For You, p.157
I'm afraid to go out the door.


195.
  ... out the flaws in our make-up which ...  BB How It Works, p.64
First, we searched out the flaws in our make-up which caused our failure.


196.
  ... out the kit of spiritual tools for ...  BB Working With Others, p.95
Never talk down to an alcoholic from any moral or spiritual hilltop; simply lay out the kit of spiritual tools for his inspection.


197.
  ... out the last flicker of conviction that ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.42
This process snuffed out the last flicker of conviction that I could do the job myself.


198.
  ... out the other side of that painful ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.99
And as he came out the other side of that painful experience, this prayer was his expression of what he could then see, feel, and wish to become:


199.
  ... out the past.  BB Into Action, p.77
Simply we tell him that we will never get over drinking until we have done our utmost to straighten out the past.


200.
  ... out the past if we can.  BB How It Works, p.70
We have listed the people we have hurt by our conduct, and are willing to straighten out the past if we can.


201.
  ... out the things in ourselves which had ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.107
Beginning with Step Four, we commenced to search out the things in ourselves which had brought us to physical, moral, and spiritual bankruptcy.


202.
  ... out the very worst in those who ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.78
We've repeatedly strained the patience of our best friends to a snapping point, and have brought out the very worst in those who didn't think much of us to begin with.


203.
  ... out the world's finest women.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.178
For some reason, we alcoholics seem to have the gift of picking out the world's finest women.


204.
  ... out there who may soon be with ...  BB To Wives, p.121
So to you out there who may soon be with us -- we say "Good luck and God bless you!"


205.
  ... out this physical factor is incomplete.  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxvi
In our belief, any picture of the alcoholic which leaves out this physical factor is incomplete.


206.
  ... out, this spiritual principle had its first ...  12&12 Step Three, p.38
When World War II broke out, this spiritual principle had its first major test.


207.
  ... out those who could get well, and ...  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.


208.
  ... out threatening to live with the other ...  BB To Wives, p.106
In the midst of such pandemonium they may have rushed out threatening to live with the other woman forever.


209.
  ... out to be bogeymen, nothing else.  12&12 Step Four, p.49
But the testimony of A.A.'s who have really tried a moral inventory is that pride and fear of this sort turn out to be bogeymen, nothing else.


210.
  ... out to be firm bedrock upon which ...  12&12 Step One, p.21
Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built.


211.
  ... out to be one's sponsor, but not ...  12&12 Step Five, p.61
This person may turn out to be one's sponsor, but not necessarily so.


212.
  ... out to be the Akron physician.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xvi
That alcoholic turned out to be the Akron physician.


213.
  ... out to be, we must be willing ...  BB How It Works, p.69
Whatever our ideal turns out to be, we must be willing to grow toward it.


214.
  ... out to carry A.A.'s message.  12&12 Tradition Eleven, p.181
Veteran newsmen, trained doubters that they are, have gone all out to carry A.A.'s message.


215.
  ... out to convince ourselves it isn't so.  BB We Agnostics, p.49
When, however, the perfectly logical assumption is suggested that underneath the material world and life as we see it, there is an All Powerful, Guiding, Creative Intelligence, right there our perverse streak comes to the surface and we laboriously set out to convince ourselves it isn't so.


216.
  ... out to corporations as personnel men in ...  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.


217.
  ... out to me in sincere and despairing ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxix
Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: "Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I must stop, but I cannot! You must help me!"


218.
  ... out to our fellows and repair the ...  BB Into Action, p.76
Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past.


219.
  ... out to overtake Walter Hagen.  BB Bill's Story, p.3
We went at once to the country, my wife to applaud while I started out to overtake Walter Hagen.


220.
  ... out to such enterprises, he was immediately ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.170
In former days, the moment an A.A. hired out to such enterprises, he was immediately tempted to use the name Alcoholics Anonymous for publicity or money-raising purposes.


221.
  ... out to tell those he feared what ...  BB A Vision For You, p.156
One morning he took the bull by the horns and set out to tell those he feared what his trouble had been.


222.
  ... out viciously.  BB To Wives, p.105
We have struck out viciously.


223.
  ... out whether he wanted to stop drinking ...  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.


224.
  ... out with lanterns looking for an honest ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.158
They'd be out with lanterns looking for an honest A.A. to plump for their brand of education.


225.
  ... out without its unique but effective therapy."  BB Appendix V, The Religious View on A.A., p.572
This self-insurance has resulted in the restoration of physical, mental and spiritual health and self-respect to hundreds of men and women who would be hopelessly down and out without its unique but effective therapy."


226.
  ... out, "you still have a legal right ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.158
"Nevertheless," we pointed out, "you still have a legal right to take this job."


227.
  ... out your past and why you are ...  BB Working With Others, p.94
Outline the program of action, explaining how you made a self-appraisal, how you straightened out your past and why you are now endeavoring to be helpful to him.


228.
  ... out your welcome.  BB Working With Others, p.95
Unless your friend wants to talk further about himself, do not wear out your welcome.


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