"A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder."

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Source : Edward Luttwak (1979). “Coup D'etat: A Practical Handbook”, p.27, Harvard University Press

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“I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can, what the outer man reveals. The inner man is seldom revealed to anyone, sometimes not even the man himself.”
“I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.”
“Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.”
“Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.”
“Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.”
“If you want to be around people who are positive and enthusiastic and eager to live life, your attitude has to be the same.”
“I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field.”
“Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.”

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