And it is easy to imagine how this leads to the tar-pit of self-pity.
With numbers like that, it's easy to imagine the market will post significant gains.
In the city it is easy to imagine what a future Palestinian state might look like.
In the worst case, it is easy to imagine the banks taking a lot more write-offs.
How easy to imagine he was born to affluence and never really had to struggle.
It is easy to imagine the sight of it driving Mark Rothko into an envious rage.
It is all too easy to imagine Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton disagreeing messily.
It is easy to imagine their own lenders getting cold feet if credit conditions turn.
If that were to happen on a significant scale it would be easy to imagine a crisis.
Yet it is easy to imagine that he may have wanted to diversify his portfolio a little.
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It is easy to imagine Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat's deputy of forty years acting in a similar fashion.
It was easy to imagine a scenario under which some of those troops would not even be deployed.
At the end of 1989 it was easy to imagine the region staying mired in poverty for decades.
Nor is it easy to imagine either of the others taking over, since neither is from New York.
It's easy to imagine someone agreeing with all three, especially when the statements are mixed in with many others.
Still, it's easy to imagine the potential of such a device, if, of course, it ever becomes a reality.
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It is easy to imagine how different the conversation would go if Facebook handed in dismal Q3 earnings last week.
It is easy to imagine the United States wanting to counter instability in the neighbourhood with a military or intelligence presence.
It is easy to imagine the president and his advisers anticipating attacks on Hagel that will only work to their favor.
It might not be easy to imagine Mr Romney with a small pipe, oversized, tattooed muscles, glugging back a can of spinach.
Without the silicon chip, it's easy to imagine the moon race between the Americans and the Soviets having gone the other way.
It is also easy to imagine how the property bubbles might pop.
In a world where your primary output is words, it is easy to imagine a smoothly operating process based on really smart rule-making.
It is easy to imagine that hardliners lurk within Burma's military who would like to derail the ambitious democratisation and economic liberalisation process.
It's thought that hot pot originated in Mongolia (it's easy to imagine gathering around a coal fire in that cold and wind-swept region).
Jonathan Laurence, an Islam-watcher and professor at Boston College, thinks Europe could rise to the challenge, but failure is also easy to imagine.
But it's easy to imagine them being suddenly thrust onto center stage via an acquisition from an Amazon, Yahoo or a similar big name.
It is easy to imagine circumstances in which the euro will strengthen against other European currencies, putting euro countries at a competitive disadvantage in trade.
It is easy to imagine Mr Bush replacing Mr Rehnquist with a still more conservative justice and it having relatively little effect on the court's balance.
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