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It happens to all of us. You need an icon for a specific subject and you can't seem to find one. Having a new icon designed might take too long.
Usually, people simply resort to starting Google Image search. This morning I bumped into Wikimedia Commons. They have a large image base which is categorized into logical subjects. I found a number of very good icons for my current project here at this link.
Here are some sample icons: