A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Božidar Purić

Dr Božidar Purić rođen je 19. februara 1891. godine u Beogradu, Kraljevina Srbija, a umro 28. oktobra 1977. godine, u Čikagu, Ilinois, Sjedinjene Američke Države.

Bio je srpski i jugoslovenski političar i diplomata, kao i predsednik Ministarskog saveta (vlade) i ministar inostranih dela Kraljevine Jugoslavije od 10. avgusta 1943. do 1. juna 1944. godine, u Londonu tokom Drugog svetskog rata.

Sahranjen je na groblju manastira Svetog Save u Libertivilu, Ilinois.


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Charles Simic

Charles Simic (born May 9th, 1938) is an American poet. He was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Republic of Serbia), his childhood was very traumatic, as in the WWII Nazi and Allied bombers ravaged his homeland. Simic emigrated to the USA in 1953 to rejoin his father, who was living in New York City. They moved to Chicago shortly after his arrival. Simic first started to write poetry in high school, when he realized "that one of my friends was attracting the best-looking girls by writing them sappy love poems".

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God Views Us Through Love

by Ignatije (Midic), bishop of Branicevo-Pozarevac

The present volume collects essays and articles written by Bishop Ignatije on man within history and within the Church; on the roots of the Church according to Saint Maximus the Confessor; on how God views us through love; about a call to rediscover our true self in our neighbor; on reconciliation in society and policy; on iconising that which is to come seen in the Iconography of Stamatis Skliris.