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• Capture him, beat him and treat him like dirt.
  -- LAPD squad-car computer message, as quoted in the Christopher Report, 7/91...
• Riker: "I don't believe this!" Troi: "He's king to his particular hill, Commander.
  You have to treat him that way." Riker: "Counselor, this feels like a perfect job for you....
• I like him and it in that order.
• Treat your guest as a guest for two days; on the third day, give him a hoe. -- Swahili proverb
• and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes!
  -- James Joyce, _Ulysses_...
• When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he i
  when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be....
• Bart: Please, Dad? If you let Otto stay, he'll help around the house and chip in a few bucks whenever he can.
  Homer: All right, he can stay. But I get to treat him like garbage....
• You know you should be swimming when . . . You want to grab a Disney animator by the lapels and lecture him about how to draw a caudal fin.
• Ned: I just attacked all my friends and neighbors just for trying to help me.
  I'd like to commit myself. Nurse: Very well. Shall I show you to your room, or would you prefer to be dragged off kicking and screaming?...