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According to the returns of the special election Eugene City became the seat of justice; but the election was ignored, and both the Legislature and the Supreme Court assembled at Salem in December.
Of the legal votes cast, Eugene City received two thousand five hundred and fifty-nine, and Salem four hundred and forty-four.
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No one ···· ···· win a ····· ···· by ······· an easy first two miles. Not against me.
The quote: No one will ever win a 5,000-meter race by running an easy first two miles. Not against me.
University of Oregon distance runner, as quoted in Wikipedia · Steve Prefontaine Source ↗
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I am going to work so that it’s a pure guts race. In the end, if it is, I’m the only one that can win it.
I didn’t like the way they felt on my feet. There was no support and they were too tight. But I saw Bowerman make them from the waffle iron, and they were mine.
If coach (Bowerman) isn’t happy, Nike isn’t happy.
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The ····· of communication in ···· ······· has ···· ···· atrophied. But we found as we went along it got easier to make contact with people. If people could just understand it is possible to be different without being a threat.
The quote: The sense of communication in this country has damn near atrophied. But we found as we went along it got easier to make contact with people. If people could just understand it is possible to be different without being a threat.
Author and Eugene native, interviewed after the Merry Pranksters’ cross-country bus trip, as quoted in Wikipedia · Ken Kesey Source ↗
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one of the world’s leading music festivals
A Great City for the Arts & Outdoors
probably constitute the single most important epidemiological event in the recorded history of what would eventually become the state of Oregon