“Should I get you a shovel, so you can dig that hole deeper?”
Rick Riordan book The Hammer of Thor
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“You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.”
Source: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 8.
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