"will-power" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1968, Robert Conquest, “The Purge Begins”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 75",
          "text": "At the centre of Stalin’s superiority over his competitors was certainly his intense will, just as Napoleon ranked what he called ‘moral fortitude’ higher in a general than genius or experience. When Milovan Djilas said to Stalin during the Yugoslav-Soviet discussions in Moscow during the war that the Serbian politician Gavrilović was ‘a shrewd man’, Stalin commented, as though to himself: ‘Yes, there are politicians who think shrewdness is the main thing in politics. . . .’⁴⁴ His was a will-power taken to a logical extreme. There is something non-human about his almost total lack of normal restraints upon it.",
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          "ref": "1975 [1971], Selvarajan Yesudian, translated by D. W. Stephenson, Yoga Week by Week: Exercises and meditations for all year round, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 77",
          "text": "Mantrams: My power of resistance is growing from moment to moment.\nMy will-power is growing from moment to moment.",
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