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Harket, 65, said he had "no problem accepting the diagnosis", adding: "With time, I've taken to heart my 94-year-old father's attitude to the way the organism gradually surrenders: 'I use whatever works'."

The prose is as famous as it is cliched, but Niemöller’s message is the same one that we Christians take to heart during Holy Week.

“While I have not engaged in any misconduct, I have learned from this experience and understand how I can do better, and certainly, I will take to heart any feedback,” Hagekhalil said.

With all respect to Didion, Davis and the other literary legends who have written about our devil winds and fires, that’s the quote Southern Californians should take to heart right now.

Unity and mutual assistance are the messages the city should take to heart, not throwing stones at the easiest target while she, and all of us, still have a job to do.