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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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phrase
A certain problem or obstacle only exists if one believes in it; therefore, it is possible to overcome it by denying its existence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From The Matrix (1999), in which a boy appears to be able to bend a spoon with his mind. The boy says: "There is no spoon.", referring to the fact that he and others are actually in a large-scale computer simulation.
