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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxième Sexe [The Second Sex]. Vol. 1, Gallimard, 1949.

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De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Vintage, 2011.

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Orwell, George. "Extracts from a Manuscript Note-book." The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell, vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose 1943-1945, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 2004, no. 167. Originally written in his diary, 17 Apr. 1949.

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Einstein, Albert. "Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon." Quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, 2007. Originally from Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon, 3 May 1949.

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Mencken, Henry Louis. "Arcana Coelestia." A Mencken Chrestomathy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1949, ch. 30.

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Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton/Houghton Mifflin, 1949, ch. 26.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M.F.K. Fisher

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Fisher, Mary Frances Kennedy. An Alphabet for Gourmets. The Viking Press, 1949.

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Von Mises, Ludwig. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics. Yale University Press, 1949, ch. 15.

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White, E. B and Roger Angell. Here is New York. Harper & Brothers, 1949.

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Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Pantheon Books, 1949, prologue.

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Leopold, Aldo. "The Land Ethic." A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press, 1949.

Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind.

George Gaylord Simpson

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Simpson, George Gaylord. The Meaning of Evolution. Yale University Press, 1949, epilogue.

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 8.

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 3, ch. 2.

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 2, ch. 9.

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 2, ch. 9.

He finally got to the top of the world...and it blew right up in his face.

White Heat

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White Heat. Directed by Raoul Walsh, Warner Bros., 1949.