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The special sphere of finance within economics is the study of allocation and deployment of economic resources, both spatially and across time, in an uncertain environment. To capture the influence and interaction of time and uncertainty effectively requires sophisticated mathematical and computational tools.


Robert C. Merton

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THOMAS MERTON For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact ...
THOMAS MERTON There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myse...
THOMAS MERTON We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inn...
THOMAS MERTON I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you sa...
THOMAS MERTON Most of the world is either asleep or dead. The religious people are, for the most part, asleep. The...
THOMAS MERTON To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, ...
THOMAS MERTON One of the effects of original sin is an instinctive prejudice in favour of our own selfish desires....
THOMAS MERTON In actual fact, conventions are the death of real tradition as they are of all real life. They are p...
THOMAS MERTON God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgivenes...
THOMAS MERTON True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some o...
THOMAS MERTON In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and ...
THOMAS MERTON There is something in the depths of our being that hungers for wholeness and finality. Because we ar...
THOMAS MERTON Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking abo...
THOMAS MERTON The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But afte...
THOMAS MERTON God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absen...
THOMAS MERTON Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.
THOMAS MERTON One who is content with what he has, and who accepts the fact that he inevitably misses very much in...
THOMAS MERTON Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such wo...
THOMAS MERTON We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to 'like' one another. Love governs th...
THOMAS MERTON Every man becomes the image of the God he adores.
He whose worship is directed to a dead thing ...
THOMAS MERTON A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
THOMAS MERTON The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God ca...
THOMAS MERTON