Let's take a minute to talk about spellbooks, since, in this day and age when magic is no longer taught in schools (or is, at best, an elective like Home Economics), very few people have the experience with spellbooks that they used to.


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I can pour myself into Bon Iver. It's a thing about self- and mental discovery, and those are al...
JUSTIN VERNON
Incendiary

That one small boy with a face like pallid cheese
And burnt-out little ey...
VERNON SCANNELL
The program spawned illegal immigration.
VERNON BRIGGS
I was not aware of that resolution.
VERNON COOPER
I am very proud to claim Mrs. Parks as a resident of Michigan and to help lead the effort to honor h...
VERNON EHLERS
There are a lot of trees that merit preservation. This isn't one of them.
VERNON ESPLIN
That was not necessary to do what he did to her body. That's a utility to prevent screaming.
VERNON GEBERTH
It's been hard and we're trying to get open sometime this spring.
VERNON GUTHRIE
We've been battling back and forth about it. I told her this year would be our year to get them.
VERNON HAMILTON
It is an arson, and we are looking for three individuals.
VERNON HUGHES
It was the most awful construction project I've ever been involved with. It wasn't a swamp, but the ...
VERNON KELLY
We've had more growth in the last five years in this coastal region than we had in the previous 10 y...
VERNON MARTIN
I haven't looked ahead. The only thing I know is we have St. Albans tonight. We're not looking ahead...
VERNON REDMAN
It was fun. Going and watching him on a day-to-day basis and seeing what he's able to do still at th...
VERNON WELLS
What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word...
URSULA DUBOSARSKY
I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, e...
URSULA DUBOSARSKY
There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so ...
URSULA DUBOSARSKY
My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self...
URSULA BURNS
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, wri...
URSULA BURNS
Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt our...
URSULA BURNS
Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a proc...
URSULA BURNS
Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, a...
URSULA BURNS
Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern bus...
URSULA BURNS
CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actua...
URSULA BURNS
Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay becau...
URSULA BURNS
If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, you'll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not ju...
URSULA BURNS
Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
URSULA BURNS
I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother...
URSULA BURNS
Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that ...
URSULA BURNS
My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I kno...
URSULA BURNS
I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.
URSULA BURNS
My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So s...
URSULA BURNS
I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputa...
URSULA BURNS
I want to stop transforming and just start being.
URSULA BURNS
I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
URSULA BURNS
Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The ...
URSULA BURNS