"It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was 'found' guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a 'true bill'."

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Source : Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

Edward Jenks

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“Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.”
“I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and I usually don't know what's going to be the next thing I do.”
“I think life is all about having a balance, and trying to find equilibrium and not getting things one way or the other.”

Source : Source: www.ibtimes.com
“Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.”

Source : "Attention Scum!", Episode 1, 2001.
“That which concerns everyone must also be discussed and approved by everyone.”
“When we were children, letters were like fun toys.Â We played with them through our building blocks. We colored them in books. We danced and sang along with TV puppets while learning C was for â€œcookie.â€ Soon, letters turned into words. Words turned into sentences. Sentences turned into thoughts. And along the way, we stopped playing with them and stopped marveling at A through Z.”
“God is bound to act, to pour Himself into thee as soon as He shall find thee ready”
“In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. Thatâ€™s both because of the physicality of computingâ€“where the speed of light still mattersâ€“and because of geopolitics.”

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