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

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PROFESSIONAL   occurs   15 times [5 in BB ... 10 in 12&12] Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... professional?  12&12 Tradition Two, p.137
'Don't you realize,' he went on, 'that you can never become a professional?


2.
  ... professional A.A.'s.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Eight), p.11
Professional workers are not professional A.A.'s.


3.
  ... professional A.A.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.168
Then we saw that if a hardworking secretary answered the phone dozens of times a day, listened to twenty wailing wives, arranged hospitalization and got sponsorship for ten newcomers, and was gently diplomatic with the irate drunk who complained about the job she was doing and how she was overpaid, then such a person could surely not be called a professional A.A.


4.
  ... professional A.A.'s.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.169
They are professional secretaries,(*) but they certainly are not professional A.A.'s.


5.
  ... professional class.  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.166
Alcoholics Anonymous will never have a professional class.


6.
  ... professional class of therapy.  BB Foreword to Second Edition, p.xix
It was thought that no alcoholic man or woman could be excluded from our Society; that our leaders might serve but never govern; that each group was to be autonomous and there was to be no professional class of therapy.


7.
  ... professional experience to their service at The ...  12&12 Tradition Eight (Note), p.169
(*) The work of present-day staff members has no counterpart among the job categories of commercial organizations. These A.A.'s bring a wide range of business and professional experience to their service at The General Service Office.


8.
  ... professional folk, we could not well carry ...  BB Foreword to First Edition, p.xiii
Being mostly business or professional folk, we could not well carry on our occupations in such an event.


9.
  ... professional folk, we could not well carry ...  12&12 Tradition Twelve, p.184
Being mostly business or professional folk, we could not well carry on our occupations in such an event."


10.
  ... professional friends, we, too, are aware that ...  12&12 Step Three, p.38
Like our professional friends, we, too, are aware that there are wrong forms of dependence.


11.
  ... professional man of recognized ability and both ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.171
My father was a professional man of recognized ability and both my father and mother were most active in church affairs.


12.
  ... professional men have regained their standing.  BB Bill's Story, p.15
Business and professional men have regained their standing.


13.
  ... professional secretaries,(*) but they certainly are not ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.169
They are professional secretaries,(*) but they certainly are not professional A.A.'s.


14.
  ... professional success ahead of spiritual development.  BB The Family Afterward, pp.129-130
Though some of his manifestations are alarming and disagreeable, we think dad will be on a firmer foundation than the man who is placing business or professional success ahead of spiritual development.


15.
  Professional workers are not professional A.A.'s.  12&12 Contents (Tradition Eight), p.11
Professional workers are not professional A.A.'s.


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