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

 

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

 

Forrest Sherman

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