A brass padlock closes around a blue question-mark shape on a yellow felt disc.

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Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

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Our interpretation.

The speaker defines a fanatic by two closed doors: no willingness to revise an opinion and no willingness to talk about anything else. It is a compact jibe at obsessive certainty, suggesting the problem is less passion than a mind that neither bends nor wanders.

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