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And at length our inventories become a regular part of everyday living, rather than something unusual or set apart.
2.
In addition to these casual get-togethers, it became customary to set apart one night a week for a meeting to be attended by anyone or everyone interested in a spiritual way of life.
3.
Secondary aids to A.A., such as clubs or hospitals which require much property or administration, ought to
be incorporated and so set apart that, if necessary, they can be freely discarded by the groups.
4.
Secondary aids to A.A., such as clubs or hospitals which require much property or administration, ought to
be incorporated and so set apart that, if necessary, they can be freely discarded by the groups.
5.
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.
6.
The consideration of long-standing difficulties had better
be postponed, when possible, to times deliberately set aside for that purpose.
7.
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.
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Nevertheless, the infant Society determined to set down its experience in a book which finally reached the public in April 1939.
10.
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.
11.
Only by discussing ourselves, holding back nothing, only by being willing to take advice and accept direction could we
set foot on the road to straight thinking, solid honesty, and genuine humility.
12.
To those having religious
training, such a list would set forth serious violations of moral principles.
13.
In the radiance of such a miraculous discovery, any doctor would set his other ambitions aside, at whatever personal cost.
14.
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.
15.
In these ways we are set in conflict not only with ourselves, but with other people who have instincts,
too.
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17.
Why is it, they ask, that in A.A. no member
can be set in personal authority over another, that nothing like a central government can anywhere
be seen?
18.
19.
Ideas, emotions, and attitudes which were once the
guiding forces of the lives of these men are suddenly cast to one side, and a completely new set of conceptions and motives begin to dominate them.
20.
But all of them do require a complete willingness to
make amends as fast and as far as may be possible in a given set of conditions.
21.
How can a set of traditional principles, having no legal force at all, hold the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous in
unity and effectiveness?
22.
23.
He has been set on a path which
tells him he is really going somewhere, that life is not a dead end, not something to be endured or mastered.
24.
Had he been successful in his enterprise, he would have been set on his feet financially which, at the time, seemed vitally important.
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For example, we may set our
hearts on getting a particular person sobered up, and after doing all we can for months, we see him relapse.
28.
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.
29.
One morning he took the bull by the horns and set out to tell those he feared what his trouble had been.
30.
If not members of religious bodies, we sometimes select and memorize a few set prayers which emphasize the principles
we have been discussing.
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This thought brings us to
Step Ten, which suggests we continue to take personal inventory and continue to
set right any new mistakes as we go along.
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How could we ever take care of those awful debts, possess a decent home, educate the kids, and set something by for old age?
35.
36.
Since Dr. Silkworth's first endorsement of Alcoholics Anonymous, medical societies and physicians throughout
the world have set their approval upon us.
37.
Employers learn that great corporations have
set their approval upon us, and wish to discover what can be done about
alcoholism in their own firms.
38.
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.
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42.
We had to begin to make our peace, and so we listed the people we had harmed and became willing to set things right.
43.
Hence the two men set to work almost frantically upon alcoholics arriving in
the ward of the Akron City Hospital.
44.
Compared to this prospect, the ten thousand dollars under consideration
wasn't much, but like the alcoholic's first drink it would, if taken, inevitably set up a disastrous chain reaction.
45.
To save whole areas from turmoil, small offices had to be set up, telephones installed,
and a few full-time secretaries hired.
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