Undoubtedly, that was an oversimplification. Today it would also be an oversimplification to believe that we have once again entered the crisis of capitalism. In my long political career, I have been invited many times to the funeral of capitalism.

What I said about there being no non aging species earlier on was a little bit of an oversimplification.

At the risk of oversimplification, some regional trends can be observed as to where the States Members of the United Nations are now in meeting the challenges described above.

Of course, to reduce Obama to the color of his skin is a grave oversimplification, even if he has been keen to emphasize his black roots. In fact, African Americans do not fully support him.

The Government of India would again reiterate the need to avoid oversimplification of the complex social phenomena of the caste system and to maintain a distinction between the caste system and caste based discrimination or disabilities.

(b) To conduct an in depth analysis of the facts that avoids oversimplification and seeks instead a complexity that associates both the positive and the negative at various levels and according to highly diversified temporal and spatial developments.

This brew oversimplification of civic engagement, idealization of the expert, fragmentation of knowledge, emphasis on technical mastery, neutrality as a condition of academic integrity is toxic when it comes to pursuing the vital connections between education and the public good, between intellectual integrity and human freedom, which were at the heart of the challenge posed to and by my European colleagues.

It would be a gross oversimplification to speak, as some are doing, of a clash between civilization and barbarism. In reality, we are confronted with a widening divide over the role of religion, which runs between the West (with the US being a complicated exception) and much of the rest of the world (the most notable exception being China), but particularly the Islamic world.