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title: "4 Capable Reason Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-bourgeois/to-assert-that-it-is-possible-to-establish-peace-between-men-of/)

[Leon Bourgeois](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-bourgeois/)

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> [Science is not the means by which we come to understand why physical laws and circumstances are the way they are. When…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-porco/science-is-not-the-means-by-which-we-come-to-understand-why-physical/)

[Carolyn Porco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-porco/)

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> [The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pinker/the-indispensability-of-reason-does-not-imply-that-individual-people/)

[Steven Pinker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pinker/)

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> [All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/all-men-are-capable-of-reason-that-is-the-fundamental-principle-of/)

[Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/)

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