In the book,he says jeans serve as a sign for two American values, creativity and rebellion.

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And when you can write that down, for me, there is just tremendous sense of creativity and of purpose and meaning.

当你能把它写出来的时候，对我个人来说，会感到这种来自巨大的创造性,目的性，意义性的满足感。

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As I said, we've been considering different kinds of arguments for the existence of a soul, each of which appeals to some feature about us-- our creativity, our ability to feel, the fact that we have a qualitative aspect of experience, our ability to reason-- what have you.

我说过,我们考察了各种各样,证明灵魂存在的论证,每一种都诉诸我们的某种特性,我们的创造性,我们的感知能力,当然还有我们定性方面的经验,我们推理的能力,诸如此类的

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