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The Oxford dictionary of thematic quotations / edited by Susan Ratcliffe.
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Oxford :: Oxford University Press,
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2000.
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xii, 584 p. ; 23 cm.
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Nagle Library copy ex dono Adrian Diethelm, Rector. Includes index.
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Monograph
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0198602189 :;
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Introduction; List of Themes; Dictionary; Index. -- The list of themes include: -- Actors; Animals; Bereavement; Boxing; Cancer; Conscience; Defiance; Drunkenness; Emotions; Engineering; Exploration; Failure; Football; Gardens; Gulf War 1991; Human Nature;
Hypocrisy; Impulsiveness; The Internet; Ireland; James Joyce 1882-1941; Last Words; Luxury; Marriage; Marilyn Monroe 1926-62; -- Necessity; Night; Optimism; People on People; Pornography; Revenge; Rock and Pop Music; Science Fiction; Surprise; Television; Truth; Unemployment; Vulgarity; Winter; Words and Deeds; Youth.

"The Oxford Dictionary of Thematic Quotations is a collection of over 7000 quotations, arranged thematically for easy look-up. Covering an enormous range of nearly 600 themes, there is every subject you can think of, from the more traditional topics of Courage or Knowledge, to topical and contemporary themes such as The Internet or Genetic Engineering.".

"The quotations brought together in each particular theme range from the very old to the contemporary, and often the authors are not immediately associated with the topic on which they speak: Stephen Fry comments on Animal Rights, Horace and Samuel Beckett on Statistics, Maeve Binchy and Goethe on Middle Age, Tony Blair and the Duke of Wellington on Leadership, and Cher and Tolstoy on the Body. A useful author index gives quick and easy access to what is in the dictionary and provides information on each author. Whether you wish to discuss a particular subject with friends, or if you want to discover what people have said on a certain topic, this is a guide to who has said what about what."--BOOK JACKET.
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