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Lions International Objects
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To Create
and foster a spirit of understanding among the
peoples of the world.
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To Promote
the principle of good government and good
citizenship.
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To Take
an active interest in the civic, cultural, social
and moral welfare of the community.
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To Unite
the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good
fellowship and mutual understanding.
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To Provide
a forum for the open discussion of all matters
of public interest; provided, however, that partisan politics and
sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members.
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To Encourage
service-minded people to serve their community
without personal financial reward, and to encourage efficiency and
promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions,
public works and private endeavors.
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Lions Code of Ethics
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To Show
my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by
industrious application to the end that I may merit a reputation for
quality of service.
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To Seek
success and to demand all fair remuneration or
profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price
of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or
because of questionable acts on my part.
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To Remember
that in building up my business it is not
necessary to tear down another's; to be loyal to my clients or
customers and true to myself.
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Whenever
a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my
position or action towards others, to resolve such doubts against
myself.
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To Hold
friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that
true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one
another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service
in the spirit in which it is given.
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Always
to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my
nation, my state, and my community, as to give them my unswerving
loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labor
and means.
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To Aid
others by giving my sympathy to those in distress,
my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.
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To Be Careful
with my criticism and liberal with my praise;
to build up and not destroy.
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