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Dr. Bob’s Last Major Talk in December 1948 in Detroit, MI

AA Pioneers June 9, 2023

Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith—better known to millions of recovering people throughout the world as “Dr. Bob”—is the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. In this last major talk before he passed away in 1950, he relays...

"You’re only as big as the smallest thing that irritates you"
- John C.

“Alcoholism is a game of Seconds and inches”
- Norm A.

“Get even with someone that’s been good to you”
- John C.

“Your Life is in Divine Order unfolding into goodness”
- Howard P.

“Remember it’s only six inches from a halo to a noose”
- John C.

Our Twelve Steps, when simmered down to the last, resolve themselves into the words “love” and “service.”
- Dr. Bob

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less”
- Unknown

“You don’t have to change much, just everything”
- Unknown

“Keep God at the steering wheel and not as a spare tire”
- Unknown.

“Surrender to win”
- Unknown

“Don’t compare your inside with someone else’s outside”
- Unknown

“Match faith with fear - and watch fear disappear”
- Unknown

“You don’t read the book, you study the book”
- Unknown

“Give freely what you find and join us”
- Unknown

“I wasn’t an alcoholic when I came to AA. I caught alcoholism in AA meetings, it enters through the ears.”
- Scott R.

“It’s as simple as A, B, C... Accept, Begin, and Continue”
- John C.

“Ask not what can I get from the world today, but what can I give to the world today”
- Paul W.

“You don’t have to drink to start over”
- June G.

“Be the least disturbed person in the room”
- Sandy B.

“Alcoholism: A Disease of Perception”
- Clancy I.

“An alcoholic should think or drink but never do them both at the same time”
- Norm A.

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Dr. Bob’s Last Major Talk in December 1948 in Detroit, MI

AA Pioneers June 9, 2023

Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith—better known to millions of recovering people throughout the world as “Dr. Bob”—is the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. In this last...

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