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IDEAS
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Anatole France
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ides that were true!
H.L. Mencken
We use ideas merely to justify our evil, and speech to conceal our ideas.
Voltaire
IDEALISM
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous Huxley
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
John Galsworthy
I'm an idealist; I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistance that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
Dorothy Parker
IMMORALITY
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H.L. Mencken
IMMORTALITY
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen
IMPIETY
Impiety, n. Your irreverence toward my diety.
Ambrose Bierce
INCOME
It is better to have a permanent income than to be facinating.
Oscar Wilde
INSANITY
Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.
R.D. Laing
INTELLIGENCE
I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.
William F. Buckley
INVITATION
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
Oscar Wilde
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