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SOCIETY occurs
65 times
19 in BB • 46 in 12&12
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1.
2.
Why A.A. could not
remain a
secret society.
3.
4.
If there were
no social instinct, if
men cared nothing for the
society of
one another, there would be
no society.
5.
Using his
best judgment of what has been
right and what has been
wrong, he
might
make a
rough survey of his
conduct with
respect to his
primary instincts for
sex,
security, and
society.
6.
We have not
once sought to be
one in a
family, to be a
friend among friends, to be a
worker among workers, to be a
useful member of
society.
7.
8.
9.
... Society and
has helped such large numbers ...
BB
Preface, p.xi
10.
11.
... society and
quit bothering yourself with such ...
12&12
Step Two, p.26
12.
13.
14.
15.
But it is from our
twisted relations with
family,
friends, and
society at
large that
many of us have
suffered the most.
16.
17.
18.
So did a
friend of
mine who
was a
one-
time vice-
president of the
American Atheist Society, but he
got through with
room to
spare."
19.
Our
growth made it
plain that we couldn't be a
secret society, but it was
equally plain that we couldn't
be a
vaudeville circuit,
either.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
... Society determined
to set down its experience ...
12&12
Foreword, p.17
26.
27.
The
less people tolerated us, the
more we
withdrew from
society, from
life itself.
28.
29.
It
presents an
explicit
view of the
principles by
which
A.A. members recover and by which their
Society functions.
30.
Around it our
Society gathers in
unity.
31.
32.
Today the
remarkable unity of
A.A. is
one of the
greatest assets that our
Society has.
33.
The
unity of
Alcoholics
Anonymous is the most
cherished quality our
Society has.
34.
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.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.
If there were
no social instinct, if
men cared nothing for the
society of
one another, there would be
no society.
46.
When we
take such personality traits as
these into
shop,
office, and
the
society of our
fellows,
they can do
damage almost as
extensive as that we have
caused at
home.
47.
48.
49.
50.
51.
52.
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.
53.
54.
Society was about to
lock him
up.
55.
56.
57.
At
one point, about a
hundred of our
Society were
breaking anonymity at the
public level.
58.
59.
So the
hand of
Providence
early gave us a
sign that
any alcoholic is a
member of our
Society when he
says so.
60.
61.
62.
63.
64.
In this
respect, we do not
enter into
public controversy,
because we
know that our
Society will perish if it does.
65.
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