“ You turn it up a notch when you're getting ready to play a team like this. When you're getting ready to play Philadelphia, you can't leave anything to chance. You can't leave any detail unnoticed. It forces you to focus even harder because you know if you're not ready, they're going to exploit your weaknesses. ”
- Tony Richardson- Copy
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“ There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. ”
- Jean Giraudoux- Copy
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“ My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels — we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. ”
- Tom Hanks- Copy
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“ Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ”
- Judith Viorst- Copy
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“ In Boston they ask, "How much does he know?" In New York, "How much is he worth?" In Philadelphia, "Who were his parents?". ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.2K
“ They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed. ”
- Bob Uecker- Copy
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“ The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores… ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Since the through line from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh was opened, not a single year has passed without the payment of a dividend — a sixty-year record which can be duplicated by no other American railroad system. ”
- John Moody- Copy
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“ On July 18, 1858, the first through train passed over the entire line from Philadelphia via Mount Joy to Pittsburgh without transfer of passengers. At the same time the first smoking car ever attached to a passenger train was used, and sleeping cars also soon began to appear. ”
- John Moody- Copy
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“ I became aware of Gamble And Huff, the whole Philadelphia sound and the work Norman Whitfield was doing with The Temptations. It wasn't just party music anymore. It had a message. That's how I got into black music while my friends were becoming hippies. ”
- Arthur Baker- Copy
- 3K
“ Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia. ”
- Russell H. Conwell- Copy
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