“You can't get good marks if you're popular.”

—  Forrest Sherman

On the need to focus on accomplishment rather than popularity, in a comment to his sister while in high school, quoted in "According to Plan" in TIME magazine (13 March 1950) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,812125,00.html

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Recipient of the Purple Heart medal 1896–1951

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