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My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life. -- Don Imus
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. -- William Shakespeare
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. -- Lucretius
But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless. -- Tobias Wolff
I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination. -- Cynthia Ozick
Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin. -- Salvador de Madariaga
A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad. -- Sophocles
Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant. -- John Steinbeck
Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil. -- Posidonius
The IPCC summary for policymakers is used to scare politicians and goad the public into action. The UN is all about politics. -- Marc Morano
Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive. -- Lauren Willig
Incentives are spurs that goad a man to do what he doesn't particularly like, to get something he does particularly want. They are rewards he voluntarily strives for. -- Paul G. Hoffman
If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy. -- Upton Sinclair

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