LeBron James

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?

American Basketball Player

Steve Jobs

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

American Businessman

Nelson Mandela

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

South African Statesman

Mark Twain

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

American Writer

Sophocles

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

Greek Poet

George Bernard Shaw

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Irish Playwright

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

German Writer

Franz Kafka

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Novelist

Benjamin Disraeli

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

British Statesman

Zig Ziglar

American Author

Use 'he' for males only. Not for females or when gender is unknown.

Gender Specific

'He' points to a specific male already mentioned or clearly identified.

Emphasis on Known

Never use 'he' for objects or things; it's exclusively for living creatures.

Not for Objects

When gender doesn’t matter or is unknown, 'they' is preferred over 'he' today.

Changing Usage

Older documents use 'he' for any person, oftentimes meaning both 'he' and 'she'.

Formal Documents

In slang, 'he' can refer to a man in an informal context, often with descriptive words.

Casual Slang

'He' as a noun can sound playful or be used to show familiarity with the person.

Modern Usage

Avoid using 'he' as a noun in formal or polite situations; use 'man' or 'gentleman' instead.

Avoid in Formality

 In a flash, he realized that looking for answers at the extremes was a mistake. The middle way between luxury and poverty seemed wisest. And while meditating under a bodhi tree, the rest of the answer came to him. All of life abounds with suffering. It's caused by selfish craving

The five major world...

 It's his responsibility to bring it up, because if he thinks about it, he can relieve Heather from the obsession, and from having to make sure that the affair isn't forgotten, and that in itself begins to restore trust. But for Heather,

Rethinking infidelity...

 CARTEL MARIANA VAN Here's where things get interesting. Remember when I said that you never ask what cartel someone belongs to? I didn't. This guy just decided to tell me that he works for one

How Do Cartels Get Their...

 to persuade females to come close and admire his plumes he sings the most complex song he can manage and he does that by copying the songs of all the other birds he hears around him

10 TOP Natural History...

 and he'd been a guest at one of my mother's dinner parties after I left this meeting my editor told me that he had said how I always wondered how that little girl would survive

How to deal with...

 To persuade females the come close and admire his plumes, he sings the most complex song he can manage and he does that by copying the songs

He

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