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Proof that if higher moment exists then lower moment also exists

The $r$-th moment of a random variable $X$ is finite if $$ \mathbb E(|X^r|)< \infty $$ I am trying to show that for any positive integer $s<r$, then the $s$-th moment $\mathbb E[|X^s|]$ is ...