“Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.” WorldProblemPoliticalEmotionProduceAmountCircumstancesDegreesUniversalRelationResponseAwakeningIntenseTensionOur WorldIntegratedUnprecedentedIrrationalityInterstate Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“If same-sex relationships are really sinful, then why do they so often produce good fruit-loving families, open homes, self-sacrifice, commitment, faithfulness, joy? And if conservative Christians are really right in their response to same-sex relationships, then why does that response often produce bad fruit-secrets, shame, depression, loneliness, broken families, and fear?” IfsDoeSelfHomeChristianJoySexSecretSacrificeLonelinessProduceBrokenCommitmentShameResponseFruitConservativeFaithfulnessSelf SacrificeLoving FamilySex RelationshipsBroken Family Author:Rachel Held Evans
“Obedience is not creation, and thus can never produce salvation. Obedience is a response, while creation is pure choice, undictated, unrequired. Pure choice produces salvation through the pure creation of highest idea in this moment now.” InspirationalIdeasMomentsChoicesReligiousCreationProducePureHighestSalvationResponseObedience Book:Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“They are, in a sense, two sides of the same coin: women are, on the one hand, subjects of an extremely real and abject (as Julia Kristeva put it) body and denigrated sexuality; on the other, the proliferation of images, and their digitalisation produces more and more abstract and air-brushed representations of impossible female bodies. Both indicate, certainly, a "lack of progress." But, one hopes, discussions and resistance are emerging in response.” TwoRealBodyHandsSidesProgressImpossibleAirSubjectsProduceFemaleResponseSexualityResistanceDiscussionAbstractRepresentationCoinsEmergingTwo SidesJuliaProliferationFemale Body Author:Laura Mulvey
“I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.” FeelsShouldTryingProduceEmotionalResponseListenersSentimentalCatharticEmotional Response Author:Paul Simon
“If you could see a photograph of what it took to make an advertising photograph - things you don't think about, like the photo assistant carefully arranging the meatballs - the degree of unnaturalness would be astonishing. Yet it produces an image that looks natural, and is orchestrated to provoke basic emotional responses.” IfsThinkingLooksWould BeNaturalProduceEmotionalDegreesResponsePhotographAdvertisingProvokingAstonishingAssistantsArrangingEmotional ResponseMeatballs Author:Sandy Skoglund
“Liberals compare Jerry Falwell to the Taliban, but then are furious with George Bush for not being Jesus Christ. Evidently, what a president is supposed to do when the girls are scared is develop complete omniscience and omnipotence. Thus, the media repeatedly expound upon the proposition that what Bush should have done in response to the anthrax mailings is: Instantly produce the culprits and put an end to this madness!” ShouldEndsDoneGirlJesusPresidentChristMediaProduceJesus ChristShould HaveMadnessResponseScaredComparePropositionsTalibanFuriousJerryOmnipotenceOmniscienceCulpritMailingAnthrax Author:Ann Coulter
“We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.” KnowsFeelsWellsMayChildrenStoriesLightEnergyFictionProduceEmotionalDrugAbuseResponseAddictionIllnessChild AbuseDrug AddictionDrug AddictTerminalEmotional ResponseTerminal Illness Author:Anthony Marra