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# In the money # //** Money **// Money was, is and will be very important in our life. Some people live their lives to  earn money. They work hard, trying to earn as much money as they can. Some of them become crazy about it and lose their dignity hunting money. They don’t appreciate such important things as family, friendship, love and other feelings. Such people become greedy, they spend their lives in loneliness. I think that money   influences our life a lot. As W.S. Maugham said “ Money is like the sixth feeling without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.” I quite agree. A person can’t be happy if he has no money to satisfy his natural needs. But I think that money should have a limit. A person shouldn’t have too much money. It begins destroying him and becomes his curse. It is said in the Bible that “The  love of money   is the root of all evil.” Yes, big sums of money really bring different problems because people feel very envious and jealous of other’s fortune. The majority of all the crimes are made because of money. I believe that money is not all-powerful. Humanity, dignity, intelligence, kindness and other good qualities of a person can’t be bought for money. Life isn’t worth living  without these things. It’s not worth living if money has become the point of it either.

//** Compensation culture **// //'//// Compensation culture '// is a pejorative term used to imply that, within a society, a significant number of  claims for compensation   for [|torts] are unjustified, [|frivolous] or [|fraudulent], and that those who seek compensation should be criticised. It is used to describe a "where there's blame, there's a claim" culture of [|litigiousness] in which compensation is routinely and improperly sought without being based on the application of legal principles such [|duty of care], [|negligence] or [|causation]. Ronald Walker [|QC] defines it as "an ethos [which believes that] all misfortunes short of an [|Act of God] are probably someone else's fault, and that the suffering should be relieved, or at any rate marked, by the receipt of a sum of money." The notion of a compensation culture has also been conflated with health and safety  legislation and excessively risk-averse decisions taken by corporate bodies in an apparent effort to avoid the threat of litigation. The phrase was coined in an article by [|Bernard Levin] in London's //[|The Times]// newspaper dated 17 December 1993 The article, largely a polemic against the [|welfare state], carried the sub-heading: "We may laugh at ludicrous court cases in America, but the compensation culture began in Britain and is costing us dear."

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