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He knows that they are real.
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But all who are in the least reasonable will agree upon one point: that there is plenty wrong with us alcoholics about which plenty will have to be done if we are to expect sobriety, progress, and any real ability to cope with life.
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If we would gain any real advantage in the use of this Step on problems other than alcohol, we shall need to make a brand new venture into open-mindedness.
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But what about the real alcoholic?
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If you are satisfied that he is a real alcoholic, begin to dwell on the hopeless feature of the malady.
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Despite all we can say, many who are real alcoholics are not going to
believe they are in that class.
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The moment we catch even a glimpse of God's will, the moment we begin to see truth, justice, and love as the real and eternal things in life, we are no longer deeply disturbed by all the
seeming evidence to the
contrary that surrounds
us in purely human affairs.
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That the man who is making the
approach has had the same difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is talking about, that his whole
deportment shouts at the
new prospect that he is a man with a real answer, that he has no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that there are no fees to pay, no
axes to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured --
these are the conditions we have found most effective.
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Perhaps the fear will always lurk in every A.A. heart that one day our name will be exploited by somebody for
real cash.
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But when we are willing to place spiritual growth first -- then and only
then do we have a real chance.
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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."
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A continuous look at our
assets and liabilities,
and a real desire to learn and grow by this means, are necessities for
us.
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Mercifully, no one could guess that I was to have
no real employment for five years, or hardly draw a sober breath.
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In later life he finds that real happiness is not to be found
in just trying to be a number one man, or even a first-rater in the heartbreaking struggle
for money, romance, or self-importance.
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We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we
couldn't make a living, we had
a feeling of uselessness, we were full of
fear, we were unhappy, we
couldn't seem to be of real help to other people -- was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we
should see newsreels of lunar flight?
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There had been no real infidelity, for loyalty to
my wife, helped at times by extreme drunkenness, kept me out of those scrapes.
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Finally, we begin to see that all people, including ourselves, are
to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong, and then we approach true tolerance and see what real love for our fellows actually means.
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My downfall cost the business community unknown thousands of dollars, for it takes real money to train a man for an executive position.
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We "constructively criticized" someone who needed it, when our real motive was to win a useless argument.
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We shall want to hold ourselves to the course of admitting the things we have done, meanwhile forgiving the
wrongs done us, real or fancied.
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There was, therefore, a sense of real satisfaction when I was asked to contribute a few words on a subject which is covered in
such masterly detail in these pages.
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In a very real sense he has been transformed, because he
has laid hold of a source of strength which, in
one way or another, he had hitherto denied himself.
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Each needed to consider the others, and in
abiding faith they knew they must find their real strength.
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The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide
and your full confidence
in the one with whom you share
your first accurate self-survey.
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Potential female alcoholics often turn into the real thing and are gone beyond recall in a few years.
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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.
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Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total inability to point imagination toward the right objectives.
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