The unselfish giant ...

"This wallpaper is atrocious either it or I have to go."

"You came to me to learn the pleasure of life and the pleasure of art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful ... the meaning of sorrow and its beauty"

... Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), author and wit

Atavistic piety ...

inflation feeds upon inflation

 "... from time to time, capitalist economies exhibit inflations and debt deflations which seem to have the potential to spin out of control. In such processes, the economic system's reactions to a movement of the economy amplify the movement – inflation feeds upon inflation and debt-deflation feeds upon debt deflation."

  

    ... Hyman Minsky (1919-96) American economist  

A very funny man ...

                                                                                             

"The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are"

... S. J. Perelman (1904-79), American humorist, author, and screenwriter