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.

The photograph is a very poor way of communicating what something actually looks like.

文学不仅仅是娱乐，它是一种理解世界的方式。

The personal is political.

我不是榜样，我只是个普通人。