"I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon."

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Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.

— Peter Hessler