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Word Analysis

"inventory" in the Big Book

14

occurrences in 14 passages

By Chapter

Ch. 5: How It Works
8
Ch. 6: Into Action
6
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Chapter 5: How It Works(8 passages)

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5.
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Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. 11.
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Therefore, we started upon a personal inventory.
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A business which takes no regular inventory usually goes broke.
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Taking a commercial inventory is a fact-finding and a fact-facing process.
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The inventory was ours, not the other man’s.
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If we have been thorough about our personal inventory, we have written down a lot.
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If you have already made a decision, and an inventory of your grosser handicaps, you have made a good beginning.
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Chapter 6: Into Action(6 passages)

H aving made our personal inventory, what shall we do about it?
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We have admitted certain defects; we have ascertained in a rough way what the trouble is; we have put our finger on the weak items in our personal inventory.
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They took inventory all right, but hung on to some of the worst items in stock.
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We have a written inventory and we are prepared for a long talk.
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We made it when we took inventory.
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This thought brings us to Step Ten, which suggests we continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any new mistakes as we go along.
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