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你們可能認為我選擇第二個主題，想象力的重要性，緣于它在我重建自己人生的過程中占據的位置，但，不全是這樣。盡管我會為睡覺前的講故事時間辯護直到我咽氣，我意識到珍視想象力是基于一個更廣泛的層面。想象力不僅是人類獨具的能力，“看見”那些并不存在的，以及繼而產生的所有的發明、創造；在它可被證明的最據變化性和揭示性的能力之中，想象力給了我們設身處地去為同類著想的能力，我們沒有經歷他們所經歷的，但我們可以理解、同情他們。
Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
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