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Benzene makes people sick, shortens lives, and harms future generations.

The Paleo diet is dangerous because it permits red meat, which clogs our arteries and shortens our lifespan.

Nearly every one of us has some disease of the mind or body that shortens our natural existence.

It shortens the journey to get out and walk; but then you will have to wait so long for your luggage—unless you hump it with you.

The London air shortens and clips those beams, and yet leaves daylight the finest thing we know.

War shortens much life and fills more with misery, hence it is utterly immoral, and this is equally true of poverty and slavery.

War shortens many lives and fills more with misery; hence its essential inhumanity and immorality.