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Thoughts XXX - Twitter, goals, surely



Between Clinton, de Blasio, and Trump, we have a new meaning for what happens on the Tweets of New York. :)

My goodness, twitter-izing seems to be a new form of open warfare.  Have you been twitter-ized yet? 

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There are approximately 4.5 characters/word in the English language.  So how many Tweets would it take to broadcast some of our greatest literature and other documents? Note a Tweet is 140 characters, max.  Here’s a brief list. Spaces are not counted.

Author Title Words Characters Number of Tweets
US Congress ObamaCare (ACA) 11,588,500 52,148,250 372,488
King James Version Bible 783,137 3,524,117 25,172
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace 587,000 2,641,500 18,868
Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind 418,053 1,881,239 13,437
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter Goblet of Fire 190,637 857,867 6,128
Muhammad Qur'an 77,449 348,521 2,489
George Orwell Animal Farm 29,966 134,847 963
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men 29,160 131,220 937
Founding Fathers USA Constitution 4,372 19,674 141
Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address 272 1,224 9
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If you do want to include the spaces, then each word will have 5.5 characters.  So multiply the number of tweets by 5.5/4.5 = 11/9.  Or simply increase the number of tweets by about 20%.

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 Consider for a moment you have just passed away.  Many things you could have said or done to family or friends are then permanently sealed against the possibility.  Maybe, you should consider acting upon such things a bit sooner.

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According to American philosopher Daniel Dennett, the “surely” alarm is that part of an argument or proof, where the protagonist invokes a phrase of the type “Surely, you see that…” or something similar.  This is the weak point exposed on center stage.  It is the point you are expected to accept without further inspection.  Call it the weak link, the flaw, the gap, the great leap, or what have you.  Surely you agree.  

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When it comes to achieving goals, if you don’t believe in yourself, you won’t achieve them. This is according to research from LSU that those believing in themselves use more of the cognitive part of their brain.  They are willing and even eager to demand more from their cognitive capacity toward problem-solving.  When you believe in yourself, you demand more of yourself.  When others believe in you, they give more consideration, more opportunity, more help, and better teaching.  Why?  One reason is because they believe their effort is not wasted.
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