Definition of Finding

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Finding

of Find

That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc.

Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision.

The result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact; a verdict; as, the finding of a jury.

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Finding Quotations

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
Carl Sagan

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
Audrey Hepburn

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Frederick Douglass

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas Merton

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Thomas Merton

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
Clint Eastwood

Finding Translations

finding in French is trouvant
finding in German is suche, auffindend, gefunden
finding in Norwegian is funn, kjennelse
finding in Spanish is hallazgo
finding in Swedish is finnande

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