The purpose of your life is not to help the Tiny Tims of the world.
But the number of Microsofts in the world is so tiny that it includes, well, basically, only Microsoft.
And in the 2, 000 years since, in every corner of the world, the tiny candles of Hanukkah have reminded us of the importance of faith and perseverance.
For one week, the eyes of the world were turned to a tiny island nation in the Mediterranean.
How did the EPA with its tiny budget out-engineer the world's carmakers?
Grass sprouts from the rooftops of tall apartment buildings and lambs can be found grazing on these aerial pastures, the occasional ill-starred creature crossing the border of its tiny world and plummeting into traffic, only to be stolen away almost immediately by a hungry citizen.
Mrs Thatcher's three successive election victories so changed the nature of politics that even the Labour Party, traditionally the champion of the working classes, came to adopt a similar view of the world, competing for a tiny number of swing voters while reasoning that its traditional working-class base had nowhere else to go.
For now, only one thing seems clear: in the modern world, this tiny, peaceful kingdom now has enemies.
Mabuchi Motor has half the world market for tiny electric motors used in electronic gadgets and computer drives.
There it is, and this is soon going to be exported to the world, this tiny little video phone.
The world knows about tiny Bentonville, Ark. and mighty Wal-Mart.
Although Pope Benedict has criticised many aspects of modern pop culture, he now allows the newspaper of the tiny independent Vatican state to reflect the reality of the world outside in a way that would have been unthinkable in the days of Pope Paul VI who reigned during heyday of The Beatles.
Remember that this was in Zambia, one of the poorest countries in the world, and it was in a tiny place six hundred kilometers from the capital city.
The researchers looked at variations in oxygen levels in the shells of tiny sea creatures found in samples taken from the world's ocean beds.
Yet for almost two years tiny Greece has had the entire world trembling in fear every few months, world markets in confusion, and world leaders rattled.
One system that has grabbed lots of attention around Europe and at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos originates in tiny Denmark, which has managed to avoid the Continent's generally high levels of joblessness even as it maintains an open economy free of most onerous state intrusions into the labor market.
And then, in 2001, came the astonishing defeat of the national team by tiny Bahrain, which dashed Iran's hopes for the 2002 World Cup.
Obama was referring to the bonuses paid to traders in AIG's financial products division, the tiny group of people who crafted complicated deals that wound up shaking the world's economic foundations.
By comparison, the Earth grazing Asteroid 2012 DA14 and the Russian meteor that caught the world by surprise on Feb 15, 2013 are relatively tiny objects, hardly even rating a mention in the solar system scale of asteroid impactors.
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It remains to be seen whether United, or indeed any other many English club, comes under Qatari ownership in the near future but, with a World Cup and possible Olympic Games both on the horizon, the tiny gulf state is only going to grow in sporting stature and importance over the next decade.
Honduras, for example, now has the highest homicide rate in the world, with about 7, 200 people murdered last year in the tiny nation of 8 million people, most in drug-related crime.
Engineers are creating the tiny computers to attach to the things of this world.
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There are 12 million of them around the world, from buses in Denmark to tiny three-wheeled delivery trucks in India.
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These are times that remind the world that we are, in fact, one very large world, and not many very tiny ones.
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The Cars sequel takes the action out of tiny Radiator Springs as McQueen goes on a kind of James Bond-style spy adventure around the world, which should help attract a bigger international audience.
Today, with between 1, 500 and 3, 000 members, Tunisia's tiny Jewish community is among the largest in the Arab world.
That magnitude of the subprime market, of its loses, looks absolutely tiny by world markets.
SCO, a tiny software firm in Utah, and Microsoft, the world's largest software firm, have only one thing in common.
But the British market is crowded and swamped with imports made cheaper by the strength of sterling so to have any sustainable future Scotland's comparatively tiny meat industry must aim for luxury markets around the world.
At the moment, of course, renewables are still a tiny share of world energy.
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