TODAY'S recommended economics writing: Treat sudden financial arrest with a financial defibrillator, says Ricardo Caballero.
"In your text," he wrote, "treat Africa as if it were one country.
The City Council's approach to timekeeping brought to mind that of the Mursi people of southwestern Ethiopia, who, Levine writes, "treat the calendar as something to be discussed and argued about... mak[ing] up the details as they go along".
Ditch them, Seeley wrote: "treat every day as if I'm going to the office now.
The legendary poet/playwright, Goethe, had once written, "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become that which they are capable of becoming".
Ms. Beers spent much of her youngest years living with her godmother, Linda Inghilleri, who, she writes, treated her as "her slave".
In an 1858 report to the federal Indian commissioner, Young blamed local Indians and, by implication, the United States government, whose "fatal policy," he wrote, "treats the Indians like the wolves, or other ferocious beasts".
"I lay in a backyard in Bow, foodless and drinkless, urinating and defecating where I was," he writes, "treating as hostile the humans in the row houses all around — which wasn't hard".
It was an "epistemology-soaked orgy," Einstein wrote, treating objects in the real world as mere puffs of possibility — both there and not there, or, in the case of Schrödinger's famous imaginary cat, both alive and dead.
