Even so, China Life is no money machine.

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The truth is that the man whose life was money had no interest in money.

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No matter what our station in life, we all account for money in highly idiosyncratic ways.

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Nobody becomes a priest, monk or nun in order to spend their professional life as a financial manager, so no doubt part of this money shuffling is down to innocent incompetence.

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Then, in many cases, they will go home, enter the product into a search engine and find some online-only merchant -- a merchant who has no real-life stores -- who is selling the item for less money.

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No one has sat in my conference room and described a life that was just about money.

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It's not worth the risk to life and it's not worth the money, because there is absolutely no benefit to getting on that people-smuggler's boat.

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It is no secret that huge sums of government money are spent on patients who are in their final year of life.

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And there's no way it can be absorbed by either life insurance companies or banks - no matter how cheap the Bank of Japan makes overnight money.

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After boosting pay to compete with other manufacturers, factory owners are finding money alone no longer is enough to attract and retain a generation of workers that demand a greater work-life balance than their parents did.

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But she says life is hard in her state hospital - she says when vital equipment breaks there's no money to repair it.

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