Joan of Arc
She led the French army against the English invasion during the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453), supported the coronation of Charles VII of France, and contributed to the French victory. Eventually captured, the Inquisition sentenced her to death by fire for heresy and witchcraft.
In 1932, at the age of 65, Mrs. Curie returned to her native country to attend the opening of the Radium Institute in Warsaw.
Mrs. Curie had been away from her country since she was a young woman, and went to France*** and her country to study. But she never forgot her country. When she was a child, her native Poland was invaded by Tsarist Russia, and she hated the invaders very much. When the couple isolated a new element from a mineral, she named it polonium. This is because the root of polonium is the same as the name of the country of Poland
Integrity
Washington vs. Nixon and Clinton
Washington chopped down one of his father's cherry trees with a small axe. His father was furious to see his beloved tree chopped down and threatened to teach the tree-chopper a lesson. Washington admitted his mistake in front of his furious father without any hesitation. The father was touched and said that Washington's honesty was much more valuable than all the cherry trees. The same U.S. President Nixon was forced to resign for lying about the Watergate scandal; Clinton was nearly impeached for lying about a dishonorable scandal. One was loved and respected for his honesty, while the other left a stain on his political history for lying.
Dedication
Mrs. Nightingale dedicated her life to nursing with the noblest of dedication and fought for nursing all her life. The British regarded her as the pride of Britain, and in 1867, in London's Waterloo Square, a Crimean monument was erected and a bronze statue of Florence Nightingale was cast to carry a lamp, side by side with a bronze statue of Hildeuil-Hebert.
Helen Keller graduated with honors from Radcliffe College in the U.S. and became a learned person, mastering the five scripts of English, French, German, Latin, and Greek, a famous writer and educator. She traveled throughout the United States and the world to raise funds for schools for the blind, dedicating her life to the welfare and education of the blind. She won the praise of people all over the world and was honored by many governments.
Waste of time
"Waste, there is no greater waste than wasting time." Edison often said to his assistant. "Life is too short to think of ways to do more with very little time."
One day, Edison was working in the laboratory, he handed his assistant a pear-shaped, empty glass bulb without the mouth of the lamp and said, "You measure the capacity of the bulb." He went back to work with his head down.
After a long time, he asked, "What's the capacity?" He did not hear the answer, turned his head and saw the assistant with a soft ruler to measure the circumference of the bulb, the slope, and took the measured figures ambling on the table to calculate. Since the bulb was pear-shaped, it was not regular as is. So it was very difficult to calculate the circumference and obliquity of the bulb. He said, "Time, time, why does it take so much time?" Edison came over, picked up the empty bulb, poured water into it, gave it to his assistant, and said, "Pour the water in it into a measuring cup, and tell me at once its capacity."
The assistant immediately read out the figure.
Edison said, "What an easy way to measure, it's accurate and saves time, why didn't you think of it? And go on counting, wouldn't that be a waste of time?"
The assistant's face reddened.
Edison muttered, "Life is too short, too short to save time and do more!"
Voltaire, the French thinker, once came out with a meaningful riddle: "Which in the world is the longest and the shortest, the fastest and the slowest, the most divisible and the most vast, the most unappreciated and the most to be regretted; without which nothing can be done; which reduces to annihilation all that is small, and makes the life of all that is great unending." What is this? There is a great deal of talk, and it is elusive.
A wise man named Chadig guessed it. He said, "There is nothing longer than time, for it is forever endless; and there is nothing shorter than time, for it brings the plans of many people too late to be accomplished; time is slowest for those who are waiting; time is fastest for those who are making merry; it can be extended endlessly or divided infinitely; it is unappreciated by anyone at the time, and lamented by everyone afterward; nothing can be done without time; time can gouge out of people's hearts all the people and things that are not worthy of remembrance by future generations; time can make all the extraordinary people and things everlasting?
What exactly is time? Time has different meanings to different people. For people who are alive, time is life; for people engaged in economic work, time is money; for people doing academic work, time is capital; for boring people, time is debt; for students, especially secondary school students, time is wealth, capital, destiny, and priceless treasure that can't be bought with thousands of gold.
Diligence
Franklin "kite experiment"
Born of humble origins, at the age of 10, he dropped out of school and went home to do the work, at the age of 12 in the printing press as an apprentice, helpers. But he studied hard, in addition to mastering printing technology, but also widely read literature, history, philosophy, self-study of mathematics and four foreign languages, practicing writing. He often went to the library of the printing house to read all kinds of books after finishing his day's work. Sometimes he was so engrossed in his reading that he did not return home until nightfall, when his anxious mother came to the factory to look for him. All this laid a solid foundation for him to achieve many things in his life. In order to stand on his own feet in the society at that time, he went through a lot of difficulties and set up his own business, the printing house. Due to hard work, credibility, attention to business management, he not only in the printing industry in the fierce competition stood his ground, and expand the business to neighboring states and the West Indies France's great critical realist writer Balzac in his more than twenty years of writing career, wrote ninety-one monumental heirloom works. In these works, he a **** portrayed more than 2,400 different types of characters, leaving a valuable art treasures for future generations. People can not help but ask, Balzac is how to use such a short period of time to create so many world-famous works?
Balzac had a creative schedule: working from midnight to noon the next day, that is to say, sitting in a chair for twelve hours, concentrating on revising the manuscript and writing. Then, from noon to four o'clock in the afternoon to read a variety of newspapers and magazines, five o'clock meal, five thirty before going to bed, to get up in the middle of the night and continue to work. A French biographer described it by saying, "Every three days Balzac's ink bottle had to be refilled and ten quills had to be used."
, became a leader in the printing and publishing industry in North America Frugality
Failure Success
Edison failed more than 1,000 times to invent the electric light. It took Nobel 11 years to invent dynamite
Persistence
Stallone came to Hollywood, looking for stars, begging for directors, looking for producers, looking for anyone who could possibly make him an actor, begging all over the place, "Give me a chance, I'm sure I'll be able to make it!" But all he got was rejection over and over again. "There's nothing I can't do! I must succeed!" Stallone was still obsessed, two years passed, suffered more than 1,000 times of rejection, spent all the money on his body, he worked in Hollywood, do some rough odd jobs to support themselves.
Sticking to the truth
Bruno propagated the revolutionary theories of Copernicus and, moreover, developed Copernicus's doctrines on the infinity of the universe and the eternity of motion. In restating the argument that the earth is only one of many planets, he further stated that the sun, which is orbited by the earth and the other planets, is only one of countless stars, and that it is not the center of the universe, which has no center and is infinite. Later, Bruno was entrapped and imprisoned by the Inquisition, tortured, and imprisoned for eight years. on February 17, 1600, in Rome's Bacchanalia, Bruno was burned alive by the Church.
Galileo was the first scientist to introduce experimentation into mechanics, and became famous for his treatise "On Gravity," which revealed for the first time the nature of gravity and the center of gravity and gave an accurate mathematical expression for them. At the same time, he challenged many of Aristotle's ideas.
Frugal
Danish fairy tale master Hans Christian Andersen, whose family was poor and struggled with poverty, is said to have had his own reflection in "The Little Girl Who Sold Matches".
Nobel, money and possessions are not insatiable, on the side, he was generous alms, the development of science, he vigorously assisted, but he himself is living frugally, a life spent in hardship, he never even asked to paint a portrait, the only existing portrait is painted after his death. After his death, according to his wishes during his life, the tomb was built very simple, he once said: "the belly of the living than the dead monument and other honors, more worthy of my concern".
Responsibility
Tolstoy's thought is full of contradictions, this contradiction is the reflection of the intricate contradictions of the Russian society, is a rich sense of justice in the search for a new life of the aristocratic intellectuals, sober and confused, struggling and uncertainty, shouting and bitterness of a vivid portrayal. Even though Tolstoy's works contain reactionary and idealistic things, they are still the pride of the world's progressive mankind, and he has been recognized as the world's literary titan. Lev Tolstoy was called by Lenin "the mirror of the Russian Revolution."
German Chancellor Brandt's Kneeling, Courageous Admission of Mistake