When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately? - Michael Crichton

Animals die, friends die, and I shall die, but one thing never dies, and that is the reputation we leave behind at our death.

Characterization lies at the heart of the impulse to polarize every issue — what we might call the Crossfire Syndrome. We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionist. We are pro-private sector or pro-big government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion. The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification — framing the debate in terms that ignore the real issues.

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.