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  Kicking Horse Pass - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Kicking Horse Pass   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pass in the Rocky Mountains, between British Columbia and Alberta, Canada.
Kicking Center (long snapper on placekicks; pro football)
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 The Christadelphian Advocate - Question Box: "Kicking against the pricks"
The word for "pricks" in the Greek is kentron {ken'-tron}, which means a point or goad.
The Apostle Paul, in resisting the teachings of Jesus, was kicking against the goads.
We are instructed therefore not to "kick against the pricks" We should learn the rather to have respect for all that are in authority.
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 Kicking Against the Pricks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kicking Against the Pricks is the third album released by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.
First released in 1986, the album is a collection of cover versions.
Were Cave's career to be broken into a three act structure, Kicking Against the Pricks might be thought of as the end of Act One.
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 What does "kick against the pricks" mean?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The prick or goad was a necessary devise.
The prick was usually a wooden shaft with a pointed spike (prick) at one end.
As result, the prick would be driven deeper into the flesh of the rebellious animal.
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 Kicking Against The Pricks Interview
This meaning is the most important to me. But if you ask me if the word "Pricks" refers to certain people in a non-biblical way, then I answer: Yes.
To me it was clear for a long time already that they would get at me whenever they got the opportunity.
Kicking Against The Pricks should not be seen as a historical overview of what I consider valuable music.
www.bad-seed.org /~cave/interviews/86-09_oor.html   (2278 words)

  
 Euripides and Luke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Here we find the expression "to kick against the goad" used of resisting the will of a god already in the early fifth century before Christ.
Yet it is right to respect also the country where I was born, since this is the divine law, and to obey all her commands and not oppose them, or as the proverb says kick against the pricks.
Thus, the use of an expression "to kick against pricks" in reference to resisting a god is widespread in the ancient Greek-speaking world and cannot in itself show dependence of one author upon another.
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 PopMatters Music Interview | Kicking Against The Pricks!: An Interview with Half Man Half Biscuit
Pricks who declare their love in a hot air balloon and have a row on New Year's Eve.
Pricks who say, "They didn't choose their cat, the cat chose them," and then build their cat a web site.
Beyond the politics, class war, and kicking against the pricks, HMHB are just as likely to puncture the conceits of the music business, or construct a frankly bemusing tale of dark deeds in country life.
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 AFF's Brainwash :: Gene Healy :: "Kicking Against the Pricks"
AFF's Brainwash :: Gene Healy :: "Kicking Against the Pricks"
The mag hardly seems right wing to me. But I was surprised to see the phrase "kicking against the pricks" in the latest issue (and not just because it seemed an unintentionally ironic reference to John McCain).
But it seems that "kicking against the pricks" is a phrase from the New Testament, and it has a different meaning than I'd thought.
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 Arena Magazine: Kicking against the pricks: analysing the Greens 2004 election result.(Election Roundup)@ HighBeam ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Kicking against the pricks: analysing the Greens 2004 election result.(Election Roundup)
The sixteenth-century Italian philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli frequently expressed the sentiment, 'If you want to change the world, prepare to feel the full force of the reaction against you from those that have the most to lose'.
If the last federal election is anything to go by, the Greens need to dust off the tomes of serious political philosophy and prodigiously arm themselves against conservative forces waiting to pounce the moment the Greens' rise begins to feel like a serious threat to those with their hands on power.
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 CHURCH FATHERS: De Decretis (Athanasius)
CHAPTER I. The complaint of the Arians against the Nicene Council; their fickleness; they, are like Jews; their employment of force instead of reason.
And though in such sundry times and divers manners the Saviour shewed His Godhead and preached the Father to all men, nevertheless, as kicking against the pricks, they contradicted in the language of folly, and this they did, according to the divine proverb, that by finding occasions, they might separate themselves from the truth(3).
If, the devil having sowed their hearts with this perverseness(6), they feel confidence in their bad inventions, let them defend themselves against the proofs of heresy which have been advanced, and then will be the time to find fault, if they can, with the definition framed against them(7).
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 Lewenstein (1994) Kicking against the pricks: A theatre producer looks back : the memoirs of Oscar Lewenstein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lewenstein (1994) Kicking against the pricks: A theatre producer looks back : the memoirs of Oscar Lewenstein
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 The New York Review of Books: KICKING AGAINST THE PRICKS
Dupee's interesting article on Richard Burton in the April 16 issue of The New York Review he says that the phrase "kicking against the pricks" is Burton's, meaning, presumably, that he coined it.
I cannot give you the name of the author; he was one of a now-virtually-anonymous group of top literary talents—the translators of the King James version of the Bible.
In the Book of Acts no less a personage than Jesus, in Paul's vision on the road to Damascus, is quoted as saying to Paul: "it is hard to thee to kick against the pricks." (Ch.
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 AlterNet: DrugReporter: Kicking Against the Pricks
A leading news site that focuses on the latest information about drug and alcohol abuse news, aiming to raise awareness and understanding of substance abuse and the problems it creates.
This week, a Colombian peasant representative speaks out against America's "War on Coca"; Berkeley, CA's mayor supports increasing medical marijuana patients' personal plant grow limit from 10 to 72 plants; and a Canadian magazine mocks US drug Czar John Walters for giving their pot trade free advertising.
April 22- Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports: Spraying tons of chemical herbicides over Colombia has failed to make a dent in the cocaine supply to the United States, and it's ruining the lives of ordinary farmers, says a peasant organizer from the war-wracked country.
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 Urban Dictionary: kicking against the pricks
< kicking a cow to move it kicking against the pricks kicking ass >
And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Urban Dictionary is not appropriate for all audiences.
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 Kicking Against the Pricks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
I worked my ass off, by myself, and the big dogs get all the glory.
And it scares me to think that eventually, I will have to go into the wide world and deal with bigger pricks than these.
I don't want to be in a position with that level of power because I'm really starting to think the brain-suckers come in the night and, well, suck yer brains out.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Kicking Against The Pricks - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at Epinions.com
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 Nick Cave - chronological song list - 1985
Note that in Roy Orbison's version, the last line is different: "and walked away with me", which Nick changed to "and walked right out on me".
first as b-side to the Singer single, later on the Kicking Against The Pricks CD First known performance:
A song that keeps re-appearing in the set: November 85, November 87, incidentally in 88, most of later 89 and nearly all of 90, incidentally in all years since then...
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 The Bumper Book (Preview)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
When Kicking Against the Pricks was published in 1982, readers across Canada were angered, surprised, titillated, and gratified.
Finally, a major Canadian author had spoken his mind about Canadian literature and its writers, and actually named names.
In the intervening four years, hundreds of people have testified to ECW representatives at conferences and displays that Pricks was one of the best-written, most provocative books they had ever read.
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 Find in a Library: Kicking against the pricks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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 Mute.com: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Kicking Against The Pricks
Mute.com: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Kicking Against The Pricks
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 Kicking Against The Pricks by Miss B
THIS ORIGINALLY RAN IN METAL HAMMER'S 'WOMEN IN ROCK 2001' AS "AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRICKS" THAT ACCOMPANIED OUR INTERVIEW WITH SUGAR COMA.
I have had to fight hard everyday just to try and get the most out of my musical vision with sometimes little or no help whatsoever from those who claim to support me as an artist who they themselves signed.
In order to change and grow I have had to make life altering decisions, conquer my fears and keep kicking against the same pricks who just have different faces.
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 Nick Cave : Kicking Against the Pricks - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
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Besides being noteworthy as an astonishingly good all-covers album, Kicking Against the Pricks is notable for the arrival of a new key member for the Seeds, drummer Thomas Wydler.
Besides being a fine percussionist, able to perform at both the explosive and restrained levels Cave requires, Wydler also allowed Harvey to concentrate on adding guitar and keyboards live as well as in the studio, a notable bonus.
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 Kicking Against the Pricks
I read the article that Dr Watson sent me, and in it I found the following passage:
The Working Party laid itself open to the very sort of criticism that supposedly followed from the adoption of a legal process by failing to invite traditional acupuncturists into an open debate in which they had the opportunity to hear and to endeavour to meet points advanced against them.
I have presented in this article the only responses I received and I would be surprised, to say the least, if any readers of the Skeptic are able to interpret these as attempts at cooperative dialogue.
www.skeptics.com.au /journal/kickprick.htm   (1067 words)

  
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 Kicking Against the Pricks Lyrics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Did you forget this fucking singer so soon?
And I ain't gonna yell against no bells
On Thursday she hock all a my clothes
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 Leo's Lyrics Database - Kicking Against The Pricks lyrics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Leo's Lyrics Database - Kicking Against The Pricks lyrics
The Hammer Song (in album kicking against the pricks)
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 Martins Starworld: NICK CAVE - Kicking Against the Pricks
Martins Starworld: NICK CAVE - Kicking Against the Pricks
The old-frame house, she can't take-a one more beating
How it breaks my heart to leave you
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