Richard Needham Quotes

• I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

  Richard Needham

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• The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

  Richard Needham

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  Tags in After, Thing

• When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

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  Tags in Problem, Solution

• The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

  Richard Needham

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  Tags in Enjoy, Honest, Person

• You don’t marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being.

  Richard Needham

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  Tags in Result, Think, Person

• Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

  Richard Needham

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Responsible, Woman, Really, Need, Weak

• Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.

  Richard Needham

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  Tags in Learning

• For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

  Richard Needham

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  Tags in People

Richard Needham (8)

Birth:	29th January, 1942
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician

About

Richard Francis Needham, 6th Earl of Kilmorey Kt, PC, usually known as Sir Richard Needham, is a British Conservative politician. An MP from 1979 to 1997, he served as Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland between 1985 and 1992 and as Minister of State for Trade between 1992 and 1995.

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