Sorry. Feel free to say “Tosh, Mal. That’s just you”. 
I still think you are reading it in an unusual manner.
“I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do” said Henry David Thoreau. Does that mean you trust the tires on your car or other people, Hank? “Trust me.” “I trust my son to handle my finances.” “I trust my SO to never cheat on me.” “I trust my husband of 40 years will never leave me for a young bimbo.” I think you can hope, yeah, put your trust in other humans - but I don’t think you should be surprised if they let you down. They are humans and imperfect, life throws curveballs, and you should always be aware of that and have a backup plan. As Dr. Laura Schlessinger used to say all the time, “Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.”
[rhetorical]
“You’re just arguing semantics!”
When gambling, the less you bet, the more you lose when you win.
“No one ever said on their deathbed ‘I wish I’d spent more time at the office.’”
“That is not dead which can eternal lie”. Although it works for threads.
Napoleon was short for someone during his time.
Oh, yes.
I hate this expression. Stupid, meaningless and infuriating. Actually, it makes me less likely to believe you…
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Used once in the Harry Potter anthology, as I remember.
*“All’s fair in love and war” – What a contemptible lie! * - R.A.H.
“It takes a village to raise a child”: I’ve seen the kind of people raised by villages - give me a nuclear family any day.
Zombies never come back to life…
This thread is 4 years old.
“It’s always darkest before the dawn”
Nope, it’s getting light just before dawn.
“You can’t put a value on human life.”
Bullshit, all we ever do is haggle over the price.
(Cynical enough for ya? 
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“God never gives you more than you can handle.”
I’ll borrow Heinlein’s answer - “What a contemptible lie.”
“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.”
Sheeya, right.
Oh, man. I want to go absolutely postal on people who babble that choice little piece of horseshit.
No, it doesn’t!
That, I think is what Yoda was getting at. There aren’t any points for trying, only for succeeding- as in, you either win, or you lose, and there’s no middle ground.
Of course, this is subject to the conditions of success; not everything is binary after all.