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;void(0)) . . . CHEER UP! see "PESSIMISM" I feel that life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable. --Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg] (1935 ) American actor, screenwriter, and director. "Annie Hall" [1977 movie] One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly; "Cheer up, things could be worse." So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. --James Hagerty Cheer up, the worst is yet to come. --Philander Chase Johnson (18661939) American journalist, humorist, and dramatic editor. "Shooting Stars" in _Everybody's Magazine_ [May 1920]  . . see "FOOD & DRINK" for related links see also: "COWS" Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly. --Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist. _Treasure Island_ [1883], ch. 15 - Oscar Madison: You want... uh... brown sandwiches... or green sandwiches? Murray: What's the green? Oscar Madison: It's either very new cheese or very old meat. Murray: I'll take the brown. --dialogue, _The Odd Couple_ [1968] - . . see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links - "Better finish our chess-game," I said. "Your move." I had forgotten my elegant trap, took me as long to remember what it was as it took her to consider her position and move. She did not make the pawn advance that was essential for her survival. I was sad and delighted. At least she would see my marvelous satin trap spring shut. That's what learning is, after all, I thought, not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. Even so, part of me stayed sad for her. My queen moved and lifted her knight from the board, even though the knight was guarded. Now her pawn would take my queen, for the sacrifice. Go ahead and take the queen, you little devil, enjoy it while you can. Her pawn did not take my queen. Instead, after a moment, her bishop flew from one corner of the board to the other, her night-blue eyes watched mine for response. "Checkmate," she whispered. I turned to ash, unbelieving. Then studied what she had done, reached for my notebook and wrote half a page. "What did you write?" "A nice new thought," I said. "That's what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning." --Richard Bach (1936 ) American writer. _The Bridge Across Forever_ [1984], Chapter 15 - She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency. --Raymond Chandler (18881959) American writer of detective fiction. _The Long Goodbye_, Chapter 24 ^ Benjamin Franklin (17061790), American statesman, diplomat, scientist, and inventor. When Franklin was in France, he frequently used to play chess with the elderly Duchess of Bourbon. On one occasion Franklin put her king in check and took it. 'We do not take kings so,' remonstrated the duchess. 'We do in America,' replied Franklin. --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ [Chess is] a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. --George Bernard Shaw (18561950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.] ----- gambit (noun) ['gζm-bit] A daring opening move in chess that sacrifices a piece for a future advantage. ;void(0)) . . see "PLACES" for related links After the Civil War, more ships cruised into Chicago than into the six busiest ports of America combined. But the lake and the river traffic alone would not have made Chicago the mammoth among inland cities. It was the coming of the freight train that did it. Chicago became the ideal junction between the harvests of the encircling prairie and the people, thousands of miles in all directions, who would eat and use them. Because Chicago was where it was when it was bang in the middle of the prairie it became the biggest railroad center in the world. It has been host to more than half the presidential nominating conventions. Nowhere have more animals and raw crops been so dramatically transformed. A cow went into Chicago as a cow and went out as a steak or a tennis racket. --Alistair Cooke [Alfred Cooke] (19082004) British-born American broadcater and journalist. _America_ [1973] I like it in spite of lake-wind sharpness and prairie flatness, damp tunnels, swinging bridges, hard water, and easy divorces...A lady from the East lately said of it, very charmingly, "It is New York with the heart left in.' --Grace Greenwood [pseudonym of Sara Jane Lippencott] (18231904), American poet, newspaper woman, and essayist. _New Life in New Lands_ [1873] In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a *sport*. In Chicago not only *your* vote counts, but all kinds of other votes kids, dead folks, and so on. --Dick Gregory (1932 ) American comedian and social activist. _Dick Gregory's Political Primer_ [1972] Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth. --John Gunther (19011970) American author. _Inside U.S.A._ [1947] Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse; One comfort we have Cincinnati sounds worse. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894) American physician, poet, and essayist. "Welcome to the Chicago Commercial Club" [14 January 1880] I have stuck a city, a real city, and they call it Chicago. The other places do not count. San Francisco was a pleasure- resort as well as a city, and Salt Lake was a phenomenon. This place is the first American city I have encountered. . . . Having seen it, I urgently desire to never see it again. It is inhabited by savages. --Rudyard Kipling (18651936) English writer and poet. _American Notes_ [1891] When I die, I want to be buried in Chicago, so I can still be active in politics. --Charlie Rangel (1930 ) American politician. (Referring to the voter registration of the dead.) Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders. --Carl Sandburg (18781967) American poet. "Chicago" [1916] Satan: (impatiently), to new-comer: The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar", In _More Tramps Abroad_ [1897]. I'd rather be a lamppost in New York than the mayor of Chicago. --Jimmy Walker (18811946) Mayor of New York City [19251932]. ;void(0)) CHILD ABUSE . . We want President Roosevelt to hear the wail of the children who never have a chance to go to school but work eleven and twelve hours a day in the textile mills of Pennsylvania; who weave the carpets that he and you walk upon and the lace curtains in your windows, and the clothes of the people. Fifty years ago there was a cry against slavery and men gave up their lives to stop the selling of black children on the block. Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers. Fifty years ago the black babies were sold C.0.D. Today the white baby is sold on the installment plan. --Mary "Mother" Jones (18301930) Irish-American labor organizer. Speech in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York [July 1903], in _The Autobiography of Mother Jones_ [1925], ch. 10. Iqbal Masih was an indentured servant in a carpet factory at age 4. He escaped six years later to become a crusader against child labor, closing down dozens of carpet factories in his native Pakistan and winning national acclaim for his work. Last week the twelve-year-old, who wanted to be the 'Abraham Lincoln of his people,' was shot dead in his village. A local man was arrested for the crime, which some suspect was the work of the carpet industry. --_U.S. News & World Report_ "Outlook" [1 May 1995] . . see: "THE BODY" see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for related links see "HOME & FAMILY" for related links Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood. --Marquis de Sade (Donatien Alphonse Franηois, Comte de Sade) (17401814) French aristocrat and writer of pornography. _Juliette_ [1797], Part I It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. . . . Three generations of imbeciles are enough. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (18411935) Justice of the United States Supreme Court, legal historian, and philosopher. Writing the majority Supreme Court opinion upholding the right of the state of Virginia to sterilize Carrie Buck who was deemed to be 'feeble-minded;' in _Buck v. Bell_ [1927]. The upper economic classes are presumably slightly better endowed with ability at least with ability to succeed in our social system and yet are not reproducing fast enough to replace themselves, either absolutely or as a percentage of the total population. We may, therefore, try to remedy this state of affairs, by pious exortation and appeals to patriotism, or by the more tangible methods of family allowances, cheaper education, or income-tax rebates for children. The lowest strata, allegedly less well-endowed genetically, are reproducing relatively too fast. Therefore birth-control methods must be taught them; they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive; long unemployment should be a ground for sterilization, or at least relief should be contingent upon no further children being brought into the world; and so on. That is to say, much of our eugenic program will be curative and remedial merely, instead of preventive and constructive. --Julian Huxley (18871975) English biologist, philosopher, educator, and author, {grandson of T.H. Huxley}. "Eugenics and Society" _Man Stands Alone_ [1941] ----- doula [DOO-luh], noun: A woman who assists during childbirth labor and provides support to the mother, her child and the family after childbirth. Ex.: Unlike midwives, who deliver babies and are licensed to perform medical tasks, labor doulas provide emotional and physical support to the laboring parents. --Stephen L. Richmond, "One Labor-Intensive Job," _Time_, [12 March 2001] gravid [GRAV-id], adjective: Being with child; heavy with young or eggs; pregnant. . . see "AGE" for related links see "HOME & FAMILY" for related links A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Don Juan_ [1818-1824], canto I, st. 25. - I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. The dreams of childhood its airy fables; it's graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond: so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown. --Charles Dickens (18121870) English novelist. _Hard Times_ [1854], Book II, Chapter 9 - When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed, The little ones gather around me, To bid me good-night and be kissed; On, the little white arms that encircle My neck in their tender embrace Oh, the smiles that are halos of heaven, Shedding sunshine of love on my face. --Charles Monroe Dickinson (18421924) American author, journalist, and diplomat. _The Children_ When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. --Sam Ewing (19202001) American writer and humorist. Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day. --Thomas Gray (17161771) English poet. _On a Distant Prospect of Eton College_, st. 6 This is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. --Graham Greene (19041991) English novelist. _The Power and the Glory_ [1940] Oh, would I were a boy again, When life seemed formed of sunny years, And all the heart then knew of pain Was wept away in transient tears! --Mark Lemon (18091870) English playright, author, and lyricist. _Oh, Would I Were a Boy Again_ The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day. --John Milton (16081674) English poet. _Paradise Regained_ [1671], bk. IV, l. 220 How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, when fond recollection presents them to view! --Samuel Woodworth (17851842) American journalist, dramatist, and poet. _The Old Oaken Bucket_ ----- jejune [juh-JOON], adjective: 1. Lacking in nutritive value. 2. Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; childish. 3. Lacking interest or significance; dull; meager; dry. puerile (adj.) 1. Regarded as childishly silly or immature 2. 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