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“My local meetings are big on this spot-check reminder: you get what you get; it’s what you do with it that counts.”

“Every older AA shudders when he remembers the names of persons he once condemned; people he confidently predicted would never sober up; persons he was sure ought to be thrown out of AA for the good of the movement. Now that some of these very persons have been sober for years, and may be numbered among his best friends, the old-timer thinks to himself, ‘What if everybody had judged these people as I once did? What if AA had slammed the door in their faces? Where would they be now?’”

“Every day, every meeting, there’s something more to learn.”

“The alcoholic is in no greater peril than when he takes his sobriety for granted.”

“Sometimes, the only place on earth that makes any sense to me is a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous.”

“The great art of living is to make the best of things as they are.”