“They were an incongruous pair, but everyone seemed to argue that history had made them into a pair. The incongruities leapt out for all to see; Adams, the short, stout, candid-to-a-fault New Englander; Jefferson, the tall, slender, elegantly elusive Virginian; Adams the highly combustible, ever combative, mile-a-minute talker, whose favorite form of conversation was an argument; Jefferson, the always cool and self-contained enigma, who regarded debate and argument as violations of the natural harmonies he heard inside his own head. The list could go on — the Yankee and the Cavalier, the orator and the writer, the bulldog and the greyhound. They were the odd couple of the American Revolution.”

– Joseph J. Ellis, 
Founding Brothers, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History, p. 163

“Contradiction is the essence of duality and the beginning of miracles.”– Aloha in the rabbit hole