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You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to silence them, however repugnant you find them. That is the bitter pill free speech requires us to swallow.

As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.

The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures without my roommates present, I would often wake up with my gums bleeding, my teeth hurting or my jaw aching. Often, well-intentioned people, believing I would choke on my tongue, tried to force open my clenched jaw to put in a hard object.

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

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