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“The story of humanity is essentially the story of human movement. In the near future , people will move even more, particularly if, as some predict, climate change sparks mass migration on an unprecedented scale. The sooner we recognize the inevitability of this movement, the sooner we can try to manage it.”
― Patrick Kingsley, The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis

tags: climate-change, migration, refugee-crisis, refugees

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“The choice is not between the current crisis and blissful isolation. The choice is between the current crisis and an orderly, managed system of mass migration. You can have one or the other. There is no easy middle ground”
― Patrick Kingsley, The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis

tags: europe, mass-migration, migration, refugee-crisis, refugees

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“To put it mildly, Beer Geeks are particular about the beer they drink. They don't waste time, money, and liver capacity on bad beer, and they put a formidable amount of thought into the beer they consume. But consume they do, and impressively well.”
― Patrick Dawson, The Beer Geek Handbook: Living a Life Ruled by Beer

tags: beer, beer-geek, craft-beer

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“It is an indisputable fact that the more expensive something is, the better it is.”
― Patrick Dawson, The Beer Geek Handbook: Living a Life Ruled by Beer

tags: beer, beer-geek, craft-beer

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“Europe, he says, is frightened that an influx of foreigners will erode European values. But what values will there to be uphold if we abandon our duty to protect those less fortunate than ourselves? Wat incentive do we give to refugees to maintain the fabric of our society if that fabric is so ragged in the first place? "If Europe is not able to show a better way of life to them, then they will think that their morality is better than ours."

"They need to face some higher standards of morality, " he says. "If not, they will set their own."

[Quoting Serbian priest Tibor Varga]”
― Patrick Kingsley, The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis

tags: migrants, refugee-crisis, refugees, serbia

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