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

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PROOF   occurs   10 times 5 in BB  •  5 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... proof.  BB We Agnostics, p.48
Everybody nowadays, believes in scores of assumptions for which there is good evidence, but no perfect visual proof.


2.
  ... proof?  BB We Agnostics, p.48
And does not science demonstrate that visual proof is the weakest proof?


3.
  ... proof against all arguments and which cannot ...  BB Appendix II, Spiritual Experience, p.568
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance -- that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -- Herbert Spencer


4.
  ... proof in a statement like this:  12&12 Step Six, p.63
He will usually offer his proof in a statement like this:


5.
  ... proof is the weakest proof?  BB We Agnostics, p.48
And does not science demonstrate that visual proof is the weakest proof?


6.
  ... proof of it, still be unconvincing or ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.96
To certain newcomers and to those one-time agnostics who still cling to the A.A. group as their higher power, claims for the power of prayer may, despite all the logic and experience in proof of it, still be unconvincing or quite objectionable.


7.
  ... proof of the nonexistence of God.  12&12 Step Two, p.28
Religion says the existence of God can be proved; the agnostic says it can't be proved; and the atheist claims proof of the nonexistence of God.


8.
  Proof that alcoholics could recover had been ...  12&12 Foreword, p.18
Proof that alcoholics could recover had been made.


9.
  ... proof that love freely given surely brings ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.124
Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.


10.
  ... proof the expectant purchaser would be forced ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.171
Without this proof the expectant purchaser would be forced to depart empty handed with none of what I later came to believe was the great panacea for all human ills.


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