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Agona Apell

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Agona Apell believes that hardware without software leads nowhere. It is this belief that inspires him to devote his writings to illuminating the software that governs success in everyday life. Agona was born into a middle class Ugandan family, and in a higher education spanning eleven years studied Civil Engineering, Education, and Construction Management. It was through this eclectic mix of courses that he came into intimate contact with physics, psychology, philosophy, and economics, the four great disciplines that influence all his writing. Allied with this education in his writings, is his uncommon familiarity with lives spanning the whole spectrum of fortune, which he gained through his personal experience as a civil engineer working ...more

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Agona Apell As our people say, "He who will jump far must first retreat a few steps." That is my strategy for dealing with writer's block: I retreat over a few ch…moreAs our people say, "He who will jump far must first retreat a few steps." That is my strategy for dealing with writer's block: I retreat over a few chapters and begin my run; if the ideas come then I take my leap into the next chapter. If they don't, then I find a diversion, only thinking of my work once in a while. If this also doesn't work, I repeat the entire routine. (less)
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American Golden Age

Quotes from this poem:
"At the approach of duty, some serve, some swerve."

"From hand to mouth the gavel travels: from the hands of crooked judges to the mouths wannabe tyrants, there to serve as pacifiers."

"The lustre of gold surrounded the king, and the lust for gold filled him."

"Not British tea but oligarch gold must down Boston harbour go."


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“The Patriots erred in the Boston Tea Party: they seized Oligarch tea & dumped it in the sea but left Oligarch gold untouched. It's that gold that has troubled the nation from that day to this. Next time, go for the gold. Hence these words: "... yes, not British tea but Oligarch gold must down Boston harbour go ...”
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“It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous”
Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.”
Agona Apell

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
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“In sweetness nothing surpasses love reborn”
Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“The world would sooner bury a live rat than it would a dead lion”
Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

“When love heals, scars are scarce”
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“If our prehistoric ancestors visited us today they would find that while we now dwell in different huts, the hearts that dwell in us are still the same; and while we now drive different things, the things that drive us have also never changed.”
Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

233 ¡ POETRY ! — 22583 members — last activity Dec 24, 2025 01:37PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read ...more
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