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You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

Jodi Picoult (2005). “Vanishing Acts”, p.63, Simon and Schuster
You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.