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CHEER UP! --- CHEESE --- CHESS --- CHICAGO
CHILD ABUSE --- CHILDBIRTH
CHILDHOOD

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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]

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not
infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never
more deceived than when we mistake gravity for
greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for
erudition.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words;
Addressed to Those Who Think_ [1820]

One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder
and a voice said reassuringly: cheer up, things could get worse. So I
cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse.
--James Hagerty (1909—1981)
Press Secretary to President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Quoted in Robert Andrews _The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 5 [1987].

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.
--Philander Chase Johnson (1866—1939)
American journalist, humorist, and dramatic editor.
"Shooting Stars" in _Everybody's Magazine_ [May 1920]

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
Attributed in Evan Esar _20,000 Quips & Quotes_, p. 127 [1995].



CHEESE

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see "FOOD & DRINK" for related links
see also: "COWS"


How can anyone govern a nation that has two
hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
--Charles de Gaulle (1890—1970)
French soldier and statesman, President [1959—1969].
Quoted in Ernest Mignon _Les Mots du Gιnιral_ [1962].

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.
--Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894)
Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist.
_Treasure Island_ [1883], ch. 15

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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]

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CHESS

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see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links

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"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

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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 (1888—1959)
American writer of detective fiction.
_The Long Goodbye_, Chapter 24

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Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790), 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.]

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[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 (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.]

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gambit (noun) ['gζm-bit]
A daring opening move in chess that sacrifices
a piece for a future advantage.



CHICAGO
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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] (1908—2004)
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]
(1823—1904), 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 (1901—1970)
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. (1809—1894)
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 (1865—1936)
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 (1878—1967)
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] (1835—1910)
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 (1881—1946)
Mayor of New York City [1925—1932].



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CHILD ABUSE

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I am inclined to suppose that children cannot find their way to acts
of sexual aggression unless they have been seduced previously.
The foundation for a neurosis would accordingly always be laid
in childhood by adults.
--Sigmund Freud (1856—1939)
Austrian psychiatrist.
_Heredity and the Aetiology of the Neuroses_ [1896]

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 (1830—1930)
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]



CHILDBIRTH

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see: "PREGNANCY"
see: "THE BODY" for other related links
see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for other related links
see "HOME & FAMILY" for other 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) (1740—1814)
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. (1841—1935)
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 (1887—1975)
English biologist, philosopher, educator, and author.
(Grandson of T.H. Huxley.)
"Eugenics and Society"
_Man Stands Alone_ [1941]

Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.
Wiring collect to a Mary Sherwood, who had just given birth.
Quoted in Alexander Woollcott
"Our Mrs. Parker" _While Rome Burns_ [1934].

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couvade [koo-VAHD], noun:
A practice in certain cultures in which the husband of
a woman in labor takes to his bed as though he were
bearing the child.

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.



CHILDHOOD

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see: "CHILDREN"
see: "AGE"
see: "HOME & FAMILY"


A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing,
And mischief-making monkey from his birth.
--Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824)
English Romantic poet and satirist.
_Don Juan_ [1818—1824], canto I, st. 25.

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I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing
when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_The Old Curiosity Shop_, ch. I [1841]


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 (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_Hard Times_, bk. II, ch. 9 [1854]

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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;
Oh, 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 (1842—1924)
American author, journalist, and diplomat.
"The Children" in _The Children and Other Verses_ [1889]

When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find
it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
--Sam Ewing (1920—2001)
American writer and humorist.
Attributed in Grenville Kleiser _Dictionary of Proverbs_ [2005].

Alas! regardless of their doom,
The little victims play;
No sense have they of ills to come,
Nor care beyond to-day.
--Thomas Gray (1716—1771)
English poet.
"Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College", st. 6 [1747]

This is always one moment in childhood when
the door opens and lets the future in.
--Graham Greene (1904—1991)
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 (1809—1870)
English playright, author, and lyricist.
_Oh, Would I Were a Boy Again_

The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.
--John Milton (1608—1674)
English poet.
_Paradise Regained_ [1671], bk. IV, l. 220

Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter
the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple
pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they
ask themselves what progress they have made in the
pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers
went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look
back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their
childhood.
--Samuel Rogers (1763—1855)
English poet.
_Italy_ [1822—1828] "Foreign Travel"

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood,
when fond recollection presents them to view!
--Samuel Woodworth (1785—1842)
American journalist, dramatist, and poet.
"The Old Oaken Bucket"

Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower.
--William Wordsworth (1770—1850)
English poet.
"Ode: Imitations of Immortality from Recollections
of Early Childhood", l. 177 [1807]

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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. Relating to or characteristic of childhood (formal)


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