Majorities need not apply
"Welcoming Mr Howard, [Indonesian dictator Suharto] said Indonesia was developing its own brand of democracy where `there is no place for a dictatorship of the majority'." -- Sydney Morning Herald, September 17.
All on their own
"The $115 million net profit announced by Seven Network managing director Gary Rice yesterday bears testimony to the hard work Rice and his chairman, Kerry Stokes, have put in over the past year." -- Financial Review, September 10.
Including Dad
"My progress through News Ltd has been made possible because of the support of Mr Cowley and the other executives of the News Group." -- 25-year-old Lachlan Murdoch, on being appointed managing director of News Ltd, two years after entering the company as general manager of Queensland Newspapers.
Tasteful
"I view it as history, and there's nothing tasteless or tacky about history." -- Paul Cruce, owner of a Dallas, Texas, business which, for US$25, allows tourists to observe a re-creation of the 1963 assassination of President John Kennedy.
Mind power
We can't guarantee the accuracy of this story, but we know someone who claims to have seen a poster advertising transcendental meditation with the words: "Scientists say we only use 16% of our brains. We'll teach you how to use the other 81%."
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