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Willpower can overcome physical obstacles, as in Margaret was determined to go to the wedding even on crutches—mind over matter . This idea was already expressed by Virgil in the Aeneid (c. 19 b.c. ) as Mens agitat molem , “Mind moves matter,” and it appeared in various forms in English by 1700.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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