For
Today –

Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than
promotion;
we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of
press, radio
and films.

--
Alcoholics Anonymous, Tradition Eleven

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Now
wait a minute, old-timer. Did Dr. Bob call Bill W. for help? Did the
first
Akronites call Dr. Bob? Did the alcoholics in Rockland State
Hospital
in 1939 call AA? The answer to all three questions is no.
If
we judge by the dictionary definition what we know of our co-
founders'
early activities, it becomes clear that they did promote AA.
They
had to; there was no other way to attract other suffering alcoholics
except
through "furtherance or encouragement" of the new Fellowship.

--
W. R., AAGrapevine, May 1968

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Whenever
I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a
damp,
drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily
pausing
before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every
funeral
I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper
hand
of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me
from
deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking
people's
hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

--
Herman Melville

Love and myGgwy Ian S..



An absence of alternatives clears the mind marvellously


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