想要平息海上的倭寇之患，先要消除人们心中的积弊。

我知道自我推销很常见，这并不坏。但我不认为这是积极的。

Words can be tools， but they can also be weapons.

The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.