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Michael Jordan to the Max http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245280/ (Film, 2000)

Guy Mannering (1815), Ch. 38.

Letter to Thomas Sloan, (1 September 1791)

Pt. 1, Ch. 4; the most famous portion of this statement is "Exuberance is better than taste…" [Mieux vaut l'exubérance que le goût.]
Sentimental Education (1869)
Context: Without ideality, there is no grandeur; without grandeur there is no beauty. Olympus is a mountain. The most effective monument will always be the Pyramids. Exuberance is better than taste; the desert is better than a streetpavement, and a savage is surely better than a hairdresser!

Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Comment on the musical Abie's Irish Rose
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed): Art. Marx Brothers p. 297

Book 3, Ch. 52
The Histories
Variant: How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

Interview by James Cameron in Picture Post (28 October 1950)
Context: If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at the first possible moment, otherwise they corrupt us, they create new problems and make our future even more uncertain. That is more than morality; it's sense.

Bertrand Russell, attributes this phrase to 'West German friends of peace' but adopted this slogan for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament he helped found http://books.google.com/books?id=c4UoX6-Sv1AC&pg=PA49 William Safire, Safire's Political Dictionary, (2008) p. 49–50
Misattributed

Καὶ τὸ ὅλον τοῦ μέρους μεῖζον
ἐστιν
Elements, Book I, Common Notion 8 (5 in certain editions)
Cf. Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book Η 1045a 8–10: "… the totality is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the whole is something besides the parts … [πάντων γὰρ ὅσα πλείω μέρη ἔχει καὶ μὴ ἔστιν οἷον σωρὸς τὸ πᾶν]"
Euclid’s Elements

Book IV, sec. 2
History of Rome

Motto of the Theosophical Society. See for instance: Blavatsky Collected Writings, Volume 6, p. 168 http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v6/y1884_016.htm

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 4.

"What it Means to be a Human Being" Speech (2001)

Journal (31 December 1893)

Title of Ch. IX, p. 160
Science is Not Enough (1967)

On Prime Minister Clement Attlee, to President Truman, in 1946. When Truman defended Attlee (‘He seems a modest sort of fellow’), Churchill replied ‘He’s got a lot to be modest about.’ As cited in The Origins of the Cold War in Europe (1994), Reynolds, Yale University Press, p. 93 ISBN 0300105622
Post-war years (1945–1955)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 616.

C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est une faute.
Reaction to the 1804 drumhead trial and execution of Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Enghien, on orders of Napoleon. Actually said by either Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe, legislative deputy from Meurthe (according to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations) or Joseph Fouché, Napoleon's chief of police (according to John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), http://www.bartleby.com/100/758.1.html).
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