Quotes About Facsimile

People always said they wanted the truth, but really they were perfectly content with a facsimile.

pretending often leads to becoming a reasonable facsimile of what you mimic, even if only from a distance.

Take facsimile, for example. Over the past two decades, the facsimile has become an indispensable part of every company's communication portfolio. Americans will send 65 billion pages of faxes this year, more than 230 per person. And 50 percent of all international telephone calls are now fax calls.

I asked her about this. But she couldn't put her finger on what made her unhappy. The most common complaint she made is one I've heard often from nursing home residents I've met: "It just isn't home." To Alice, Longwood House was a mere facsimile of home. And having a place that genuinely feels like your home can seem as essential to a person as water to a fish.

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

We are told how Washington carried this little book in his pocket through the Indian wars and how his life was saved by it receiving bullets or arrows aimed at the great chieftain."23 (It apparently never occurred to Rev. Robinson to wonder why there were no bullet or arrow holes in the book's pages in Henkels's facsimile reproduction.) Naturally,

facsimile science. (By this term I mean materials that carry the accoutrements of science—including in some cases peer review—but fail to adhere to accepted scientific standards such as methodological naturalism, complete and open reporting of data, and the willingness to revise assumptions in the light of data.)49 This is the problem of for-profit and predatory conferences and journals.