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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
B. R. Ambedkar
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B. R. Ambedkar
Age: 65 †
Born: 1891
Born: April 14
Died: 1956
Died: December 6
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I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.
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