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December

"Outsiders associate Philadelphia with political corruption, Legionnaire's disease, and bombing row houses."

Garrison Keillor

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November

"Proclaim Liberty throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants therof"

inscription on the Liberty Bell

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October

"Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws."

William Penn

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September

"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

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August

"It was in Philadelphia that "in a moment of elegance and clarity" the men gathered here wrote the Declaration of Independence and Constitution."

Garrison Keillor

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July

"William Penn was the first great hero of American liberty. During the late seventeenth century, when Protestants persecuted Catholics, Catholics persecuted Protestants, and both persecuted Quakers and Jews, Penn established an American sanctuary which protected freedom of conscience."

Jim Powell

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June

"I love Philadelphia and I'm in love with Temple."

Ann Weaver Hart

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May

"[Philadelphia is a] city that knows its own mind...They like what they like. And what they don't like, they complain about."

Garrison Keillor

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April

"I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half."

John Wanamaker

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March

"When I was council president I had a rule that people could sleep on the job. I modified the rule. You could actually sleep in public if you weren't sitting down. I had three people who actually perfected the art of sleeping while standing."

John F. Street

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February

"Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer of a wise man."

William Penn

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January

"Philadelphia is the only city where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day."

Mike Schmidt

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