text: I admire Abraham Lincoln because his leadership kept the states together.\nI like that he had a brilliant mind yet remained quite a humble man.\nI'm not currently trying to emulate any of his achievemnents (how could anyone) or qualities.\nYou can like someone without trying to be them.\nAnd no, my admiration for him does not affect my performance or outllok to any significant degree. \nOther than to say I try to live a good and decent life.\nPretty much the same answers for Neil Armstrong and Martin Luther King Jr.\nI attribute to MLK, my open-mindedness of everyones rights and views.