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- ~IXdK
- v/* CenterObject - Horizontally center an object with respect to the page,
- or another object.
- row = getclickrow('Click on the object you want to center')
- col = getcolumn()
- par = getobjectat(col, row)
- child = par
- do until gettype(par) ~= 'Group'
- child = par
- par = parent(child)
- end
- ob1 = child
- if length(ob1) > 0 then do
- row = getclickrow('Click on the reference object (or the page)')
- col = getcolumn()
- ob2 = getobjectat(col, row)
- if length(ob2) = 0 then ob2 = ':'
- left = getleft(ob2) + (getwidth(ob2) - getwidth(ob1)) % 2
- top = gettop(ob1)
- call setposition(ob1, left, top)
- end
- CenterObject
- rlist = createlist()
- ob = '1:1'
- do while ob ~= ''
- appenditem(list, getname(ob), 1)
- ob = getnext(ob)
- end
- createcontents
- /* set page colors */
- do i=1 to numpages()
- call setpagergb(i || ':', 2, c2d('aaa'x))
- call setpagergb(i || ':', 3, c2d('50a'x))
- end
- pagecolors
- Group1
- Note1
- List1
- .Because a man dies for it Oscar Wilde
- 4Martyrdom has always been proof Arthur Schnitzler
- .Slaves of the things we like Ernest Benn
- ,Many of us will die of cholera John Rich
- 3Why they invented hell Bertrand Russell
- 4Dead troublemakers Mignon McLaughlin
- .Because everything is different Irene Peter
- 4No one really listens Mignon McLaughlin
- .An artist never really finishes Paul Val
- 6The unreasonable man George Bernard Shaw
- .In times like these Paul Harvey
- /To prove the incredible H.L. Mencken
- 4Marriage is a gamble Laurence J. Peter
- 2Idealism increases John Galsworthy
- /A competent historian Lee Simonson
- 1They first call promising Cyril Connolly
- 4Experience enables you Franklin P. Jones
- 5I drink George Jean Nathan
- .A large deposit in my name Woody Allen
- .Till you can find a rock Wynn Catlin
- 2A neurotic is... Jerome Lawrence
- .The virtue of the vicious Oscar Wilde
- /A gentleman is... H.L. Mencken
- 5We do not know Thomas Alva Edison
- 4Disappointment deferred J. Winston Baldry
- -We have to speak well of the dead John Sloan
- *No man would listen to you Ed Howe
- 1That darn tune pops into my head Anton Bruckner
- +The best government Voltaire
- /Those who write clearly Albert Camus
- 1The law, in its majestic equality Anatole France
- 5One can't judge Wagner's opera Gioacchino Rossini
- Note1
- A Miscellany Of Quotations
- "Quotations"
- "Because a man dies for it"
- A thing is not necessarily true
- because a man dies for it.
- Oscar Wilde
- !"Martyrdom has always been proof"
- Martyrdom has always
- been a proof of the
- intensity, never of the
- correctness of a belief.
- Arthur Schnitzler
- "Slaves of the things we like"
- Liberty is being free from the
- things we don't like in order to be
- slaves of the things we do like.
- Ernest Benn
- "Many of us will die of cholera"
- If everybody contemplates
- the infinite instead of
- fixing the drains, many of
- us will die of cholera.
- John Rich
- "Why they invented hell"
- The infliction of cruelty with a good
- conscience is a delight to moralists. That
- is why they invented hell.
- Bertrand Russell
- "Dead troublemakers"
- Every society honors its
- live conformists and its
- dead troublemakers.
- Mignon McLaughlin
- "(Page number)"
- Group1
- Drawing1
- Drawing2
- "Because a man dies for it"
- !"Because everything is different"
- Just because everything is
- different doesn't mean
- anything has changed.
- Irene Peter
- "No one really listens"
- No one really listens to
- anyone else, and if you try it
- for a while you'll see why.
- Mignon McLaughlin
- !"An artist never really finishes"
- An artist never
- really finishes his
- work; he merely
- abandons it.
- Paul Val
- "The unreasonable man"
- The reasonable man
- adapts himself to the
- world; the unreasonable
- one persists in trying
- to adapt the world to
- himself. Therefore all
- progress depends on the
- unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
- "In times like these"
- In times like these, it
- helps to recall that
- there have
- always
- been times like these.
- Paul Harvey
- "To prove the incredible"
- Metaphysics is almost always
- an attempt to prove the
- incredible by an appeal to
- the unintelligible.
- H.L. Mencken
- "Marriage is a gamble"
- An optimist is one
- who believes marriage
- is a gamble.
- Laurence J. Peter
- "(Page number)"
- Group1
- Drawing1
- Drawing2
- !"Because everything is different"
- "Idealism increases"
- Idealism increases in
- direct proportion to one's
- distance from the problem.
- John Galsworthy
- "A competent historian"
- Any event, once it has occurred,
- can be made to appear inevitable
- by a competent historian.
- Lee Simonson
- "They first call promising"
- Whom the gods wish
- to destroy they
- first call promising.
- Cyril Connolly
- "Experience enables you"
- Experience enables you
- to recognize a mistake
- when you make it again.
- Franklin P. Jones
- "I drink"
- I drink to make other
- people interesting.
- George Jean Nathan
- "A large deposit in my name"
- If only God would give me
- some clear sign! Like making
- a large deposit in my name
- at a Swiss bank.
- Woody Allen
- "Till you can find a rock"
- Diplomacy is the art of
- saying `Nice doggie!' till
- you can find a rock.
- Wynn Catlin
- "(Page number)"
- Group1
- Drawing1
- Drawing2
- "Idealism increases"
- "A neurotic is..."
- A neurotic is a man who builds
- a castle in the air. A psychotic
- is the man who lives in it. A
- psychiatrist is the man who
- collects the rent.
- Jerome Lawrence
- "The virtue of the vicious"
- Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde
- "A gentleman is..."
- A gentleman is one who
- never strikes a woman
- without provocation.
- H.L. Mencken
- "We do not know"
- We do not know one millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas Alva Edison
- "Disappointment deferred"
- Hope is merely disappointment deferred.
- J. Winston Baldry
- #"We have to speak well of the dead"
- Since we have to
- speak well of
- the dead, let's
- knock them while
- they're alive.
- John Sloan
- "No man would listen to you"
- No man would listen to you
- talk if he didn't know it was
- his turn next.
- Ed Howe
- "(Page number)"
- Group1
- Drawing1
- Drawing2
- "A neurotic is..."
- ""That darn tune pops into my head"
- Someone once asked Anton Bruckner:
- `Master, how, when, did you think
- of the divine motif of your Ninth
- Symphony?' `Well, it was like this',
- Bruckner replied. `I walked up the
- Kahlenberg, and when it got hot
- and I got hungry, I sat down by a
- little brook and unpacked my Swiss
- cheese. And just as I open the
- greasy paper, that darn tune pops
- into my head!'
- Anton Bruckner
- "The best government"
- The best government is a
- benevolent tyranny tempered
- by an occasional assassination.
- Voltaire
- "Those who write clearly"
- Those who write clearly have
- readers; those who write obscurely
- have commentators.
- Albert Camus
- #"The law, in its majestic equality"
- The law, in its
- majestic equality,
- forbids the rich as
- well as the poor,
- to sleep under
- bridges, to beg in
- the streets and to
- steal bread.
- Anatole France
- "One can't judge Wagner's opera"
- One can't judge
- Wagner's opera
- Lohengrin
- after a
- first hearing, and
- I certainly don't
- intend hearing it
- a second time.
- Gioacchino Rossini
- "(Page number)"
- Group1
- Drawing1
- Drawing2
- !"The darn tune pops into my head"
- CH0:DPaint
- Transcript
- "(Page number)"
- Group1
- Drawing1
- Drawing2
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