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It s the perfect marriage of wisdom and wit–here are 100 valuable lessons on how to live, drawn from 100 hilarious and unforgettable jokes. A really good joke, like a great poem, memorable song lyric, razor-sharp anecdote, or Zen koan, is a portal of discovery–it can get a meaningful message across in a way that s clear, humorous, and practical. It s the secret weapon of every great comedian–there s the joke, and then there s the subtext of the joke, and that can mean serious business. A funny, funnyjoke about a therapist and his patient conveys, for example, an important lesson on the power of communication. A surprising joke about a tribal shaman and the weather service turns into a necessary critique on how we should view experts–