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The Grapevine has often used short quotations (sometimes from other AA publications) as serious or light-hearted fillers. In the same vein, “Distilled Spirits,” introduced in 1993, offers brief personal insights into sober living by AA members.

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1.	Heard at Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inter Group: "An alcoholic is a man with two feet firmly planted in mid-air."	July 1944

2.	Short Takes Lest we forget, it's well to remember the old saying that nobody can go from heel to halo in three weeks.	January 1946

3.	Flushing Quotes Frank L.: "You cannot drown in Lac St. Pierre if you do not go in the water."	February 1946

4.	Short Takes Bob B., who is a professional actor, gives a dramatic flair to his account of life in A.A., which he describes as being "without drunkenness, danger, disgust and D.T.s; fears, fantasies, fights and frustration; hangovers, heartbreaks, horrors and hospitals."	February 1946

5.	Short Takes Definition for WILL-POWER Our WILL-ingness to use a Higher POWER.	September 1946

6.	Short Takes Put yourself to as much trouble as you do your friends!	May 1947

7.	Short Takes (by Sarah K.) Michigan -- "Take it easy, but TAKE it."	June 1947

8.	Short Takes ONE IS TOO MANY, 40 NOT ENOUGH	September 1947

9.	Short Takes EASY DOES IT	September 1947

10.	Short Takes FIRST THINGS FIRST	September 1947

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